Max Kellermann <[email protected]> writes: > On 2016/04/19 18:01, Julien Cubizolles <[email protected]> wrote: >> Of course I've no idea why two such similar fields exist but many >> automatic taggers seem to set them > > Here's the real cause of them problem, and here is where a solution > must be applied.
Taggers have a legit reason to do this. They increase compatibility with various music players by settings multiple tags to the same value. Half their userbase would complain otherwise, if they didn't. mpd is the component which merges e.g. ALBUMARTIST and ALBUM_ARTIST to the same internal tag without filtering out duplicates. Assuming this is not a bug, what is the reason for not filtering out duplicates deliberately? I think nobody is arguing that mpd should stop sending the same tag multiple times altogether. But only if the values actually differ. If there is no reason for mpd to keep duplicates (which I don't know) then that seems a whole lot saner than the current behavior. > >> mpd should: >> * either choose one of the two fields if both are set >> * or create both ALBUMARTIST and ALBUM_ARTIST fields. > > That's spindoctoring! > > Let's not discuss this any further. I really wish we could at least discuss this. Regards Dennis Hamester _______________________________________________ mpd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.blarg.de/listinfo/mpd-devel
