>and i don't think removing all trailing spaces is guessing, how is it >guessing? > I was being slightly tongue in cheek.
It would be making a decision that may not be right, and there would be no way to overrule it. The application has no idea whether that space is intentional or not. Some people may add spaces to make two albums of the same name unique (a bit silly, but not inconceivable). I am not aware of any other applications that strip leading/trailing spaces from tags, so SC would become non-standard. >its fixing what is assuredly a typo. Perhaps the scanner should spell-check tags and suggest corrections? >i can't think of a single album that ever officially used a >trailing space, or artist, or anything else for that matter. There could be one. Artists are increasingly releasing albums with gimicks to get publicity. If someone spots a problem in their library data, they can correct it by correcting tags. Not a big deal. Once again, I don't really want additional regular expressions being run against all tags to ensure that leading/trailing whitespace is removed from the tags at scan time and at play time (which invokes the scanner), as this can only cause a slow down of the app when scanning. Consider a library of 10,000 songs - that could mean ~40,000 more text searches/replacements being run on a rescan (assuming only artist, album, song, genre tags, but of course there could be a lot more). And if the scanner removed whitespace, but it then merged metadata retrieved from iTunes and MusicIP libraries, it may not match albums correctly (unless it stripped spaces from those sources too), which could also cause duplication, which would be even harder to spot. It is more worthwhile suggesting enhancements to rippers/tagging apps, to make them have an option to remove leading/trailing whitespace. That's a once-off change. In fact, why not write an Mp3Tag script to do it, and run it on your library to do away with the issue yourself right now? Wouldn't take long. Phil _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
