>eg. winamp / gracenote assigns some CDs as "Various Artists" thats an >indication its a comp as far as that field is concerned. > What do you mean "assigns some CD's"? Do you mean when ripping, or when scanning into the library?
Entering an arbitrary name is not true indicator of a compilation. How can it be, other than for a human being to interpret the name. It is not a compilation, it's an album by an artist called "Various Artists". And another album by "Various" would be exactly that, not a compilation, and nothing linking the two albums to both be considered browsable as a group of compilation albums. >i am pretty sure itunes does the same thing, AND assigns a comp=1 tag. > You are wrong. The only albums in iTunes that are compilations are ones that have ITUNESCOMPILATION=1. If I were to enter an album artist name of "Various Artists" (or any other text that you may like a computer to automatically consider to be a compilation) it will not be detected automatically as a compilation. It would be listed under "Various Artists", not under "Compilations". iTunes will group songs onto an album if they have an album artist tag. >it is reality, its just you don't want to acknowledge it b/c it doesn't >jive with what you consider to be correct. > it is not reality, its just you don't want to acknowledge it b/c it doesn't jive with what you consider to be correct. I like my library to represent reality; the information that is actually on my CD's, how I file them in my big cabinet of CDs. You are saying I should be able to take an album, say "Dark Side of the Moon", and set Compilation=1. Fine, SC can allow you to do that, but that's not reality. In reality, the album is not a compilation, and without custom tags to override the correct behaviour, it would never be considered a compilation. If there were a guest performer on Dark Side of the Moon, say Frank Sinatra was discovered as the actual singer on Us And Them, I would want to set Album Artist=Pink Floyd to prevent it being a Compilation album. Setting Compilation=0 should be irrelevant, as it is the album artist that defines the album as being a Pink Floyd album, and thus not a compilation. Setting Compilation=1 would not be reality; a decision would need to be made as to what album artist it would then appear under: Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra or Various Artists? You say in your world, every song in your library should have an album artist. This is no standard, and no app forces that. That is a restriction you have imposed on yourself in your own parallel non-reality. What about songs that are not on albums? Do you still set album artists for them? >i already said you may be right in an academic sense, but in the >pragmatic sense this is not the reality on the ground, the defacto >standard out there. Enough of your defacto standards - there is no such word "defacto". A spell-check suggests "defective" :-) The term you are looking for is "De facto", which is latin meaning "in practice". What you discuss is not a de facto standard. In practice there are many different ways that people work. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
