MrSinatra;368398 Wrote: > > JUST BECAUSE IT FOLLOWS A TRUE/FALSE RULE, DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T > GUESSING. > I'm sure I'm going to regret getting into this, but here we go...
"Guessing" might have a different meaning in English than Swedish that I'm not aware of, but to me "Guessing" means that there is no way to know the outcome based on the facts available. In the SqueezeCenter VA logic case, there are a very clear set of rules, so you will know the outcome of the logic if you look at the values in the tags available. Sure a few months ago, you didn't know the rules, so it might have seemed like it was guessing. However, it really wasn't, it was just following the same rules as it do today. To me, this means that SqueezeCenter is NOT guessing, it has logic that follows a set of rules to detect if an album is a compilation or not. Now, the let's also look at the meaning of "Various Artists". To me various artists means that there is more than a single artist used on the album and you can't say that the album belongs to exactly one of the artists. In SqueezeCenter there are two main alternatives to tag artists: - ARTIST: Artist on a specific track - ALBUM ARTIST: Provide information to help SqueezeCenter to know that the album really belong to ONE of the artists on the album. So what does SqueezeCenter do ? - If more than one ARTIST exists, it indicates that the album is a "Various Artists" album - If you think you know better and has set an "ALBUM ARTIST" tag it trusts your knowledge and decides to threat the album as an album that belongs to the artist tagged with "ALBUM ARTIST" - If you think you know better and don't want it to use "ALBUM ARTIST" and have tagged it with a "COMPILATION" tag it once again trusts your knowledge and use the "COMPILATION" tag to decide how to threat the album. To me this is not guessing at all, you have several possibilities to give SqueezeCenter your knowledge and if you don't it applies its own logic and threat all albums with more than a single artists as a compilation. If the knowledge you provide SqueezeCenter with isn't correct (incorrect tag values), SqueezeCenter is still going to trust you because it knows you are the master who knows best. This will of course result in that it seems like SqueezeCenter does the wrong thing, but it's really just caused by incorrectly tagged music. To make it even more flexible, you can enable the "List compilation albums under each artist" option in SqueezeCenter settings which will have the effect that SqueezeCenter doesn't group compilation albums together under a "Various Artists" menu. NOW OVER TO THE REAL QUESTION: Why do the people like all the posters in this thread spend time discussing this over and over again in multiple threads when we all know we aren't going to agree ? Sure it's sometimes fun discussing, but can't we use our SqueezeCenter knowledge to something more useful ? -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56078 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
