th00ht wrote: > However, I think that it was Robin Bowes some way up this thread that > suggested that ARTIST is in fact a misnomer. It is just one of top > level entries in a arbitrary searchable universe. The others could be: > Genre, Album, Ethnicity, Year, or indeed Composer. The latter wouldn't > really be of use to the metal-afficionado but would probably be used by > the average classical music lover. So in fact a music player should be > adaptable to whatever a user feels as being a top-level entry point.
Exactly. But music players are *not* adaptable - they all use Track/Album/Artist - so if we want our music to work on such players we can do one of two things: 1. Conduct a idealogical campaign to get all makers of music players to change the way they treat tags so we can customise them in an arbitrary manner to work how we want. 2. Adapt how we use tags to work within the Track/Album/Artist paradigm. I would suggest that option 2. is the only viable option. > So I could ignore ARTIST all together and use starting entries Composer > and Performer and tag my tracks accordingly. You could, if the music players supported it. See above. R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
