Philip Meyer;314027 Wrote: > >I really don't understand the reason to start this discussion again, > but > >I guess I've probably missed something. No, I'm not trying to silence > >anyone, I just don't understand why you guys keeps spending energy on > >something that's already solved instead of doing something useful > with > >your time. > > > I am trying to defend the rest of the world and avoid unnecessary > alternative compilation detection mechanisms, as I can't see any > problem with the current logic.
thats why we're talking about the issue in this thread. :) Philip Meyer;314027 Wrote: > > >The patch provided for bug '#8324' > >(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8324) makes it possible > to > >turn off the automatic logic > > > And it should be clear that by turning it off, there is no alternative > to using a non-standard id3 tag to identify compilation albums. not exactly. if u turn it off, and use TPE2 as album artist, you will get things sorted right. then what i've been proposing is a new user defined function VERY similar to whats in the VA auto detection already. essentially a user could define to SC what strings in their tags SC should recognize to mean "COMP" so, if i put in the string "Various Artists" to such a hypothetical proposed SC function in settings, and SC found that string in say, my files TPE2 tag, it would know to simply classify that album as a COMP in the SC database. SC wouldn't be "guessing" it would be doing exactly what the user specified. and it would only affect the COMP field in the DB, it wouldn't have any role in populating the SC ALBUMARTIST field in the DB. this would work with standard tags, and its very similar to how SC already looks for "Various Artists" string in a files Artist field. Philip Meyer;314027 Wrote: > > >I also believe that most people really doesn't need this patch, > because > >the change in bug 8001 will solve everything. > > > Yes. i'm not convinced yet. Philip Meyer;314027 Wrote: > > >If none of the above doesn't solve the issue you can still override > the > >compilation status by setting COMPILATION or TCMP tag to 1. > > > Yes, and it should never be necessary to set COMPILATION=0. and this is one reason why i'm not convinced yet... based on things i've read, a lot of people do set COMP=0 to undo what VA logic did b/c they would rather do that than use album artist tags to reverse it. Philip Meyer;314027 Wrote: > > >TCMP is not a standard tag, it's not even a standard MP3 frame, > >so in my world this makes it even less standard than a COMPILATION > tag. > Yes, I agree. iTunes was so wrong in doing that. i guess i'm lost here. whats the beef? is it with non-standard tags, or just differences between differing comp tags? is it possible for my id3v2.3 tags to start with more than 4 characters? ie. TPE1, TPE2, TCMP? -- 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
