Philip Meyer;291160 Wrote: > >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
No, it wouldn't. It's already worked who the Album is by. For example in my previous post, the image shows an Album by Frank Sinatra list under "Home->Artist->Various Artist" there is nothing stopping this Album being listed under "HOME->Artist->Frank Sinatra". The scanner does not need to go through the sub string album tags, to find the Album artist. It can use the one explicitly given in the tags. The scanner is demonstrably already determining the correct Album Artist, it's just I question of listing it in the appropriate place. Your example is inappropriate, in that case there is unlikely be an explicit Album Artist, in which case SC can fall back on "Various Artists". -- bullgod ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bullgod's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46093 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
