kolding Wrote: 
> I also have some perl scripts which will take this file and tag MP3
> and/or FLAC tracks based on it.
Would these scripts work for ALAC tags as well?  IIRC, ALAC also uses
ID3, though I'm not positive about that.  In any case, all of my music
is in ALAC format (ripped using iTunes), and while I did my best to tag
the stuff properly, it was certainly not optimal due to iTunes' somewhat
limited tagging.

One feature request that would be great for SS is to add "Browse by
Composer" in addition to the other Browse options... I know there's an
option to have SS include Composers in the "Browse by Artist" list, but
that's not at all the same thing.

Another idea which could be done separately or in conjunction with the
above is to allow inclusion of only CLASSICAL composers in the artist
list, i.e. only Composers for songs tagged as Classical would be added
to the Artist list, while other composers would be ignored.  The reason
for this is that many of my rock/electronica tracks include composer
information, namely the artist(s) who wrote the song.  However, often
these are personal names rather than band names, and I do **NOT** want
them added to the Artist list.  At the same time, the "artists" for
classical pieces (i.e. the conductor, ensemble, soloists, etc.) are
rarely relevant when I'm searching for music, i.e. I am much more
likely to search for "Mozart" than I am to search for "Neville
Marriner" or "Berlin Chamber Orchestra."

Currently the only way to browse by composer is to add ALL composers,
regardless of genre, to the Artist list (by enabling the appropriate
feature in SS), but this causes the very problem I mention above (i.e.
that I only want to see composers for classical music, not any other
genres).

It would really be great if SlimServer treated classical composers as
the "artists" for purposes of searching - at the very least, to make it
an option so those of you who DO want to search by
conductor/ensemble/soloist still can.  Adding a "Browse by Composer" is
certainly the easiest workaround, so hopefully the developers can add
that sometime soon.  The other option (the first sentence of this
paragraph) would probably take a bit of work to ensure that it was done
in an intuitive fashion.


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