MDE wrote: > In trying to make my tagging flexible and future-proof (as if), my > approach is becoming one where custom tags hold all the component pieces > of data. Thus I can have Movement and Opus tags and then concatenate > them to produce Title. It occurs to me that the same approach should be > used for other standard tags that can cause difficulty, such as Artist. > This allows the Artist tag to be built (using mp3tag for example) from > the custom tags, including Composer. I mentioned in a previous post > that, if there is an Artist tag, the Composer does not get shown on the > SB Touch display. Concatenating artist and composer into the Artist tag > solves that problem (as does having an Album Artist and no Artist, if > the circumstances permit). The only (slight) problem with having both in > the Artist tag is that Muso then shows (in classical mode) the composer > twice (as composer and artist) - see screenshot below. Would it be a > good idea to eliminate multiple references to the same artist/composer > etc. at the same level? I don't know whether this might have unforeseen > consequences, but it would make for a cleaner view (especially if there > are other contributing performers/ ensembles etc., which there aren't in > the example given). > BTW, the two-composer attribution works perfectly for albums like this. > EDIT - Obviously this would only be relevant in "intelligent" mode, if > the dual-mode route is pursued.
Any suppression rule can't apply for non-classical. For example an album by Tom Waits has him as the Artist on all tracks but various Composers (writers of the songs), some of which may be Tom Waits himself, and I would expect that to be shown. Perhaps the suppression could always be relevant for classical albums, since if you specify Artist=Composer there it's more likely that both refer to the composer and you are replicating only to assist squeezebox displays or other music software. In fact I think Muso does do this, but the dual-composer titled artist may be throwing off its normal logic - I'll check it out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
