Philip Meyer;290229 Wrote: 
> >and that means SC7 has no reasonable method to sort all albums for
> >users who do not have user defined tags in their files.
> 
> I think you meant "sort all artists".  SC does - it sorts by artist if
> there is not album artist.

no, i specifically said what i said on purpose.

and what i said is true.

SC7 has no way to sort ALL albums reasonably using only standard mp3
tags.

that is fact.

the main issue, (and maybe the only issue?) is with albums that have
differing TPE1 fields.  other programs hijack TPE2 to fix this.  SC7
however, does not respect that.  and i am just repeating myself beyond
that.

as i alluded to earlier, it make take some extra logic-programming to
have SC7 decode mp3 tags to get it to figure out what should be the VA
section or not, but thats the kind of thing that can be worked on as we
go i think.

Philip Meyer;290229 Wrote: 
> If you want an option to sort by Band, then there should also be options
> to sort by Conductor, Composer, etc, as Band shouldn't be singled out as
> being different from any other contributor role.

well i don't think so, for two reasons:

1. i don't think anyone has asked for that
and
2. probably b/c that is not a defacto standard in the mp3 population,
meaning most programs don't give you that option, as they do via TPE2.

Philip Meyer;290229 Wrote: 
> I think when you talk about not sorting properly, you don't really mean
> "sort" at all.  SqueezeCenter will always sort by the sort title of the
> artists (when there isn't an ARTISTSORT tag, the artist name is used as
> the sort title), but you don't tag songs with ARTISTSORT.

i do not use ARTISTSORT tags at all.

and SC7 does not sort by artists if an album has differing TPE1 tracks
on it.  in that case, it uses its own internal logic to classify it as
VA.

Philip Meyer;290229 Wrote: 
> You mean that you want a browse by band menu (as you have put an artist
> name in the TPE2 tag of all of your mp3 files)?
> 
> Nb. CustomBrowse can do a browse by band menu.
> 
> Phil

what is Nb?  what is CustomBrowse?

yes, i have all my TPE2 tags organized to sort things where i want
them.

here's what i mean, and i thought it was the same:

when i browse artwork via artist, year, album, i want my albums to sort
via the info that SC7 calls BAND, namely the TPE2 tags in my files.

whats the difference between browse by band and sort by band?


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