garym;566679 Wrote: > aha! sorry, I didn't get this as the question. Because SbS knows it is a > compilation, and I select the option to "group compilation albums > together" it keeps me from having lots of one-off artist listings when > browsing by ARTIST when lots of these compilation artists are ONLY > represented on compilations. And if a compilation artist also has > albums on their own, the compilation tracks will also show up under the > ARTIST listing, which is behavior that works well for me.
this is why i am asking, b/c i might be missing something, but what you describe above is how i believe SBS acts already if everything simply has an AA tag, and no comp tags at all. ergo, why not forgo comp tags and just AA everything? i think the whole approach by SBS is wrong headed to begin with, like "grouping comps together" or not. its nonsense, and it requires too much fiddling with options and rescans. as if anyone wants all their comps in one big category anyway. (maybe sometimes, but not all the time). it would be much simpler to simply browse by artist, or albumartist, (or whatever field you want) on the fly. that makes a lot more sense than how it is today. garym;566679 Wrote: > But based on the many long threads on the compilations issue that I > recall you heavily participated in, surely you must already know this, > so I fear there must be more in your question than face value. :) not really, i'm honestly not trying to be tricky. my usage currently is that i have AA tags on everything, and so basically i am trying to figure out what the benefits of usage are to take the time to tag things as comps. ie. i'd like to know why i should bother to do it, how it would benefit me? so far, i don't see any real compelling reason for SBS to know this or that is a comp. if everyone simply put AA tags on everything, there would be no need for comp tags of any kind, or VA detection logic. (just use an AA tag of "Various Artists" if thats where you want the CD to be, etc) the one caveat i know of, is that certain 3rd party apps seem to make use of comp status, like AAC (album art catalog or something like that) but that could be done in other ways and really has no bearing on SBS proper. SBS is very good at reading all the kinds of tags one might have. but it absolutely sucks in terms of being flexible and intuitive to then navigate or browse what it finds in scans. all this focus these days on simplicity, but meanwhile it has these goofy options, inflexible browsing ability, and retarded need to rescan when u want something slightly different. its a real killer drawback. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbrec (parent's home) - sbs 7.5.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 43k+ mp3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80683 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
