>The discussion of tags and their interpretation is entirely different to >the main problem, there are too many developers here who are missing the >other, and more important problem: usability. > I'm sorry, but I disagree. I believe developers are very conscious of usability, and do a good job of catering for all people. I don't believe there is a big problem with usability. Whilst I sympathise with you about your problem (I'll try to help), it is a different problem to the one discussed in this thread.
>Please, please, please can the issue of which tags, which version of >tags etc but put aside for one thread. > I'm afraid not - it's kind of fundamental. Whilst a user may not want to care about tags, if music doesn't have tags, they can't really hope for songs to appear in the library 100% how they expect. If some tags are set (automatically when you rip them), music may appear reasonably well in a library, but may need some tailoring to be perfect for how *you* want them to appear. This is likely to be the case for your problem. It's likely that you >Can you please consider the users' perspective we don't care if the tag is >Band, AlbumArtist or what ever. > >From a users' perspective, you must appreciate that you need to set something >in your tags for it to look correct in your library. If you don't then you >shouldn't care if it doesn't work 100% how you want it. >The fact remains that stated way of working: >-if the album is natural compilation multiple authors and there is >album artist it is listed under album artist. > I don't quite understand what you mean in that sentence. The album is deemed to be a compilation album if not all of the artists on all songs are the same, and thus will appear as album artist="Various Artists". >Irrespective of whether this is Band tag, ALBUMARTIST it doesn't >matter, because this functionality is still broken! > Don't understand what you mean. >Such an Album is still found under: Home->Artists->Various Artists >(albeit listed as by the album artist). If you are looking in Home > Artists > Various Artists, all albums listed in there are by album artist = Various Artists. You won't see any album artists within Various Artists. >And it is not listed under Home->Artists->album artist. Where it is wanted. > Then fix your tags! No other music library software that I have used will interpret this correctly either. In fact, most other software wouldn't let you have multiple artists. You must have tagged that song specifically to have two performing artists, so you must already know something about tagging. If you'd not set the guest artist, the album would have been detected with album artist = "My Favourite Band". Actually, I suspect that you haven't actually defined two artists on the song, but one artist called something like "My Favourite Band and Guest Artist". >For example: >My Favourite Band, creates an album called "Debut", all tracks are by >"My Favourite Band", the album by "My Favourite Band", but the last >track they are joined by "Guest Artist" > That last track makes the software think that the album is a compilation album, because the last song isn't by the same artists as all of the other songs. That is why you need to set an albumartist tag. The scanner doesn't second-guess how you want that album to appear. >This is the real problem, not the internal representation of the band's name. This is your problem, caused by the information in your song tags. Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
