>Also, as has been pointed out by others, the proper place to do what >has been requested is not in the scanner, because you don't want to >force a rescan when changing the option. > I think it should be an option appropriate only to the scanner. I believe we are NOT saying that any scanned Band contributor should be considered as an album artist, but only when interpretting ID3v2.3 tags (eg so that TPE2 would mean album artist). Better formats, such as OGG, have support for both band and album artist tags as part of the defined standard.
I don't think anyone has seen the need for a contributor role of band to be seen as album artist, but for a band tag to be read as album artist. There's a difference. I don't think it's a big deal that if an option for how the scanner would translate tags were to be changed, that a rescan would be required. I would assume that a user would set the option that they want as a one-off and stick with it forever. eg. I would never want to translate TPE2 to album artist, as I want to see band contributors, and I already have album artist tags. However, other people who are more accustomed to iTunes for example, may never have proper band contributors and use the TPE2 tag for album artist. They are unlikely to change the option for scanning too. I would hope that such a scanner option would be set automatically by the installation wizard, e.g. if the user indicates that he uses iTunes, etc. For existing users, they'd have to choose the right option and rescan - a one-off change that they are unlikely to need to do ever again. There are other benefits; the change to implement within the scanner would be a lot easier than the potential rework to SqueezeCenter to dynamically work out how to group by album artist and what artists to list. Also, performance may be worse if it has to work out album artist groupings dynamically all the time. Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
