slimpy;296539 Wrote: > I see you got carried away there in post #8... > Not every problem with your tags can and should be solved by the SD > people.
i absolutely agree. sloppy tags for instance, are not a slim problem. but this case is different, and i can explain why in one sentence: SC7 has NO WAY for mp3 users to properly group/sort/organize/arrange their albums without using a user defined tag, meaning a tag other than whats spec'd in v2.3 i totally understand your view that slim can't handle every mutation, but this is very, very basic stuff, b/c 2.3 is universal, even in how its abused its practically universal. if you don't see it that way then i guess we just have to agree to disagree. slimpy;296539 Wrote: > You always tell people how you stick to the id3 specification and how > reluctant you are to use non-standard frames. to be more accurate, i point out that this is the reality that most [mp3] people and most (in marketshare) apps stick to. can't fight the tide. slimpy;296539 Wrote: > Your use of the TPE2 frame to denote soundtrack albums certainly isn't > standard. i should clarify that... i don't have a set in concrete system for this, and it wasn't me who started this on my tags. it was one of my apps, most likely WMP. so i just did that more uniformly. also, in winamp, when it auto-tags, it occassionally puts "Various Artists" or "Soundtrack" or something like that in TPE2, but thats a fairly new development, as winamp hasn't autotagged and even used TPE2 for that long. maybe a year or so? (using gracenote i believe) i readily admit using TPE2 for anything other than the spec is improper. but it is the defacto standard. its just as much a defacto standard as usuing user defined tags is that SC7 does respect. its universal in practical terms in other words. slimpy;296539 Wrote: > What does "Soundtrack" have to do with album artist, band, orchestra or > composer? > Put "Soundtrack" in the genre frame (TCON) instead. yes, i do do that, (the genre frame). but i wanted to separate VA albums from soundtracks, as they are in that sense, distinctly different. so for instance, when i have "list albums by band" (which is all the time in SC7), it'll say such and such an album is by various artists for one cd, and such and such an album is by original soundtrack for another cd. its just my preference, i don't claim it to be perfect, or to be how other people should do it. slimpy;296539 Wrote: > Use a seperator character if you already have a genre in your tags and > don't want to overwrite it. > > -s. can you explain this a bit more? do you mean take: Rock and make it: Rock - Soundtrack ? i mean, thats a great idea and all, but it doesn't affect the grouping issue, which is the main thing i am trying to address. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.0.1beta - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45280 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
