>If I understand correctly, it sounds to me as though bullgod's >requirements could be met with the following additional logic: > >If every track has TRACKARTIST=Artist X (even if some tracks have >multiple TRACKARTIST tags) and ALBUMARTIST is not already set, then set >ALBUMARTIST=Artist X. > No, what he's asking for is not possible, because he has used a single artist name, not multiple artists. It works in iTunes because they have used the frig of using Band to mean album artist, and he's got a single string literal in the band tag for each song (which may contain several artist names in the one band name).
The scanner would have to cope with looking for sub-string matches in the artist tags. It would then have to decide that as a substring of each artist string matches for every song, set the album artist to that substring. It would also have to guess when that sub-string is not actually an artist, etc. Eg. an album with songs by "The Beatles" and "The Rolling Stones", should not be known as album artist = "The ". There is no problem to solve in this example. The tags aren't set right. Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
