erland;309251 Wrote: > You don't have to check folder names, the only things that might need > testing is how it reacts if album artist is set to "Various Artists" or > if a track has a single artist tag set to "Various Artists".
my tags don't have an "album artist" tag at all. thats a user defined tag and my files don't have user defined tags. they do have TPE2 tags, aka band tags. a lot of software hijacks TPE2 to use AS the album artist tag, but they do so erroneously, and currently, SC7 gives no option to respect this defacto (if albeit erroneous) standard. in any case, without being able to turn off the VA detection logic, and without getting SC7 to populate ALBUMARTIST with TPE2 tags, i can't really test what happens when the value is "Various Artists" erland;309251 Wrote: > To be able to run SqueezeCenter on Windows without perl, it needs to be > compiled to binary exe file. Unfortunately I don't have access to the > commercial tools needed to compile it, so unless you can install and > use ActiveState perl I think you will have to wait. If you are using > Linux or Mac it would be easier since these use the non binary version > already by default. i guess i have to wait, b/c i just don't have the time to get into this aspect of it. i've never been good at programming. also, does it cost money? i do have a mac, but its the wifes and for now i'd rather keep SC off of it, (and i'm not mac savvy yet anyway). erland;309251 Wrote: > I was thinking of the handling of when album artists is set to "Various > Artists". see first response. if i've missed the point or didn't understand, let me know. erland;309251 Wrote: > I'm pretty sure the majority of the new SqueezeCenter users has tagged > their music albums with a single artist. Most people doesn't spend a > lot of time tagging, they just use the information provided by sources > such as freedb.org which typical have a single artist per album. the main reason i can't get people i know into SC7 and slim, is b/c of the limitations it has in handling "average" users, especially those users without user defined tags. a lot of users get their mp3s from multiple apps, meaning multiple rippers, p2p, friends, etc... there is no SOP for tags, but my suggestions re: these bugs at least allow average users the chance to get sensible management of their files with the least amount of tinkering, and using apps they already use. i can't stress enough how important i think that is. if slim wants people to buy into "their way" of doing things, imo, they need to meet the average user more than halfway. erland;309251 Wrote: > Doesn't the provided patch also solve the problems in 8001 ? without being able to test it, and see what it does in practice, i can't answer this. it might, and it might not. but i tend to think, guessing now, that it only helps, doesn't fully solve the issues. erland;309251 Wrote: > When the new option is disabled, albums with several artists will never > be considered a compilation album unless you have manually set the > COMPILATION tags. As I see it this should also make sure the album is > sorted according to the TPE2 tag since it's no longer a "Various > Artists" album. but i don't think it sorts via TPE2. i could be wrong, but i think it sorts via TPE1, (i am fairly sure of this), and when there is a TPE1 mismatch, that then gets it classified as a comp and VA album, but TPE2 has nothing to do with any of that at any point. remember, TPE2 populates the internal to SC7 field of BAND, not ALBUMARTIST. thats what 8001 is meant to address. b/c SC7 uses ALBUMARTIST to sort. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.1beta - Win XP Pro SP3 - 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=47297 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
