jdk wrote: > I have stayed out of this discussion, as I long ago recognised that no > program will suit everyone when it comes to tagging and tag > interpretation -- developers simply have to make a decision. That's > because, despite the ID3 "standard" and the like, no standard has ever > been universally adopted by all programs and devices. > > Personally, I prefer programs that make no guesses about my files -- if > tags are blank, they're blank. Foobar2000 is one that works this way. > > The main reason I prefer this is that, although I take great care over > my tags, I have developed a "non-standard" method of tagging over the > years. Not because I wanted my own system, but because so many programs > and (particularly) playback devices implemented a non-standard feature > set. > > For example, although it's considered bad practice, I have always > duplicated the Composer tag in the Artist tag (for classical music) -- > because many portable playback devices default to showing the artist and > refuse to show the composer. > > Another example: I recently tried out Musicbee > (http://getmusicbee.com/), a PC music manager which seems to be highly > regarded by many people. The result was confusion (for me). > > I have always left my "Album Artist" tags blank, because over the years > many programs and devices have used the tag in unpredictable ways. > Because my Album Artist tags were blank, MusicBee copied my "Performer" > tags to the Album Artist tags in its library, and also duplicated those > tags as "Artist" in its music browser. I had to create "virtual" tags to > make sense of my music collection. > > So I quickly stopped using Musicbee, but the program obviously suits a > lot of people who are happy for the program to "guess" at the tags. > > I do hope that Muso continues to make as few assumptions about tags as > possible. But I understand jezbo's dilemma.
Valuable input there thanks. Like I suggested a post or two ago, I think the way forward is to make it an option to configure whether assumptions are made, this might be a simple intelligence on/off switch or it may have a multiple levels. I'll give it some thought. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jezbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9888 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91575 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
