Robin Bowes;272856 Wrote: > > I had an idea for how this could be handled, conceptually. > > The scanning code would read all tags like performer, composer, band, > etc. etc. > > The user would choose a template that creates the "standard" > Artist/Album/Track tags from the "non-standard" Performer, Conductor, > etc. tags. > > This alternate scanning routing could be triggered by genre, i.e. > Classical, or possible there could be different templates used for > different genres. e.g. Chamber, Orchestral, etc. > > I'm not sure if it would be possible to add this as a plugin to SC. > > R. Yes, Classical requires an quite different set of tags which would populate a different database structure than the artist/album/title hierarchy of popular music. Even if there was a tagging and database structure in place tomorrow, it would be a while before it was propagated to the majority of hardware and software in the field, so IMHO you're correct, we'd need a template to populate the "standard" tags from the classical tags so that older equipment could operate in "limp home" mode. In fact, some of the "Classical" tags might also be useful for popular music, say "COMPOSER" or "PERFORMER" (to list "side" performers on a track).
It's a problem which needs to be solved eventually, and maybe and open-source project like Squeeze Center is the best place to do it. -- Timothy Stockman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy Stockman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
