Philip Meyer;364783 Wrote: > >BUT i do include "disc 1" eg. in an album title to make the > >delineation. > That's ugly!
indeed it may be, but it works, and its easy, an i've never had a problem doing it that way. i also occassionaly put " (Remaster) " or " (Live) " in the title too. out of spec? no doubt. but convenient nonetheless. Philip Meyer;364783 Wrote: > If I were to want a multi-disk set to be ripped and kept like the > original media it was distributed on (like I said, sometimes I do), I > would use disk number tags, I'd never embed the media number in the > album name. understandable, but i just went with the de facto standard out there, as i tend to do. another problem is that disc number tags aren't as universally well supported as album name tags. i also don't want to have to make sure they are all done the same way. 1 or 1 of 2, or whatever. Philip Meyer;364783 Wrote: > > >seems to work well with ALL apps > That will work equally in all apps - poorly (in my opinion). as a subjective judgment thats a matter of opinion, but as a judgment of functionality, its not. its never not worked as i intend it to, in EVERY app i have ever used, software or hardware. Philip Meyer;364783 Wrote: > You can call an album whatever you like, or you could pretend an album > is in fact two different albums and call each album whatever you like. > Because that's what you are doing - there's no link between "The Wall > (disc 1)" and "The Wall (disc 2)" - they become two separate albums. depends how you define terms and context. call it two platters if you need to, but for me it is one album of two distinct separate parts. i know its the same album in the macro sense, my delineation does not confuse me, but rather makes it easier to navigate to what i want. if i'm pretending one album is two, you are pretending one album is one massive cd, at least, in a sense. i'm more interested in trying to relate numer of cds anyways, not albums. out of curiousity, what did you do or would you do for say springsteens 75-85 live 3 cd set? Philip Meyer;364783 Wrote: > If you play random albums, it could select half of an album and not the > other half. fine by me. i never listen to whole random albums, but if i did, i wouldn't want to hear that much just randomly. Philip Meyer;364783 Wrote: > Your stats will also be incorrect, because "The Wall" would then be > counted as two albums. if i cared how many albums i had that would be valid. but as i mentioned, i'm more into how many CDs it represents. altho frankly, it doesn't mean that much to me. my main thing is navigating thru manageable amounts. Philip Meyer;364783 Wrote: > > >seemingly how gracenote (and even freedb) does it too > Most tag info comes from users; Gracenote and freedb are DB's that > aggregate submissions from users, and users have different ideas on > tagging. > > dbPowerAmp seemingly gets disk number tags, so they use sources where > disk numbers can be entered and retrieved, but sometimes multi-disk > albums are submitted as one album, sometimes with disc numbers, and > sometimes with with disk numbers in the album title. There's no > consistency. > > Phil exactly, i agree with all that, and thats why i avoid the issue and just go with the flow. its the same reason that i don't break down each CD into sides, the same reason works both ways. its easy and works and does what i want. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55045 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
