egd;283310 Wrote: > Jim, apologies for revisiting an old thread, however, would appreciate > your input and that of anyone else knowledgeable in this area. A > substantial portion of my collection contains multiple delimited > entries within a tag and I'm close to embarking on a process to do the > same for the remainder of my library. I'm indifferent to using a > delimiter or having multiple tags so long as SS correctly deals with > the tracks for playlisting etc and managing tags doesn't become > unnecessarily complex. Before I make a decision as to which way to go, > are there any advantages using multiple tags over using delimiters? One > potential issue that springs to mind for me is which tag entry something > like mp3tag would display when editing tags containing multiple Genre or > other entries.
The 'standard' states that you should be using multiple fields of the same name. The only advantage I'm aware of in using delimiters is somewhat SqueezeCenter-specific, and applies to the ARTISTSORT field. If you have: ARTIST=Johnny Cash;June Carter ARTISTSORT=Cash Johnny;Carter June then SqueezeCenter will correlate them in the correct order. With separate fields, while there may an 'order' to how they're stored in the tag, this order isn't supposed to be significant and may easily get rearranged if you retag the file. So the following can't be expected to work all the time: ARTIST=Johnny Cash ARTIST=June Carter ARTISTSORT=Cash Johnny ARTISTSORT=Carter June What I do is just leave out ARTISTSORT whenever there's more than one artist field. With SqueezeCenter, if an ARTISTSORT is defined anywhere in the library then it will be associated with the ARTIST and won't be overwritten. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41618 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
