Fascinating to see this old thread revived .. especially to see myself in it, last April, right at the beginning of getting to grips with all of this!
John - since you've revived this - a couple of points if I may? The first thing I'd say is that a discussion on tagging is only a small part of the story: much more important (and you have touched on it) is what you can do with the tags once you've got them. "Listener" (Bill) and I had a lengthy debate on this a few months ago (one or two others did join in!), the result of which was a series of enhancement requests (2696 - 2701 as I recall). My second point is to wonder about your focus on ID3 tags... thats fine for MP3 files, but FLAC users will be using Vorbis tags, APE different again... this was actually one of the most difficult parts of working out the enhancement requests, and we weren't able to work out a full set of answers. Every tagging scheme is different, with no simple mapping from one to another. I guess this is what has tended to enforce the use of the lowest common denominator - artist/title/genre etc. As Snarlydwarf has pointed out, Slim does read COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR and BAND, but doesn't make very good use of them. As a minimum I'd like to see PERFORMER added (I did manage to work out a set of patches to do this) - but NB there isn't a good mapping for this in ID3: if you use TPE1 you've just used what other players are going to interpret as ARTIST, which will cause heap big confusion. But again, getting PERFORMER into the system isn't much good unless you can do meaningful Browse and Search, and I got stuck when trying to work this out for myself. Ceejay. -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=12914 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
