snarlydwarf;208412 Wrote: > I think it's more that you are expecting more normalization to be done > automatically than is really possible. > > Is '\"The Bears\"' (http://www.thebearsmusic.com/) the same band as > '\"Bears\"' (http://www.bearspop.com)? Or is it the same as "The > Bears," the irish punk band that released "Insane/Decisions" as a > single in 1978? > > Tags matter a lot for this reason. Variations on artists makes them > different. Ie, the normalization should be done at the tag level, not > by slimserver, which would only guess (and would most likely merge the > three above, even though they are very different bands).
My expectation is If I have an album 'X' by band 'Y', I should be able to look up band 'Y' and see album 'X'. Instead, if I look at band 'Y' I am only seeing album 'Z' and there is only a single entry that looks anything like 'Y'. It seems that SlimServer has in fact decided I have album 'Z' by band 'Y' and album 'X' by band 'Y1' but then refuses to show band 'Y1' on the artist list. Maybe it's because the text of both is identical, but internally they are actually 2 distinct entities and the code that retrieves the artist list merges them. In any case, it seems like something is broken. I'll have to try exploring the database directly to see if I can figure out what's going on. In your example I would fully expect to see 2 band entries, where one of them really should have been split into 2, but I don't expect SlimServer to be able to do that. When I said normalization, I was referring to database normalization, not canonicalizing the names of artists. It didn't occur to me that my statement could be interpreted that way :) -- colin_young ------------------------------------------------------------------------ colin_young's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6481 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36049 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
