IMO, this topic needs to be reexamined, as I feel that SlimServer 6.5's current behavior of not merging tags is causing a lot of unnecessary confusion.
Here is Dan's explanation behind the decision to _not_ merge tags in the new scanner included with version 6.5 (from http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25998#post126991): Dan Sully;126991 Wrote: > This is another one of the 'some people want it one way, and some people > want > it another' debates. There's a real issue behind this, in that a lot > of > programs (iTunes notably) will not update an ID3v1 tag in a file if an > ID3v2 > tag exists. We used to merge the two tags, but people were being > confused, > and getting incorrect data when they would change tag information but > would > still see the old ID3v1 data. The part I'm having trouble with is the idea that there are many people who would actually have a preference for the current behavior. Why would anyone _want_ SlimServer to NOT merge tags? The only thing I can think of is to be able to use SlimServer as a tool for cleaing up their tags. Which is an odd use for SlimServer. Yes, it can be confusing if you're in some other program looking at id3v1 tags and wondering why SlimServer shows different values. But that's a shortcoming of some _other_ software, or of the program used to tag those files. In my experience, most programs DO merge tags, so that when you're viewing tags you see the product of the merged tags, with id3v2 generally taking precedence over id3v1. When an id3v2 field is not present (or is an empty string or zero value) then the id3v1 field value is displayed. If people really do have a preference (again, I'm having a hard time believing that), then make tag merging an OPTION to the scanner, with the default behavior to merge them, not the current weirdness. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30770 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
