Philip Meyer;638295 Wrote: > >Do any of the applications referred to above ever apply a string other > >than 'Various Artists' to the ALBUMARTIST field of compilations? If > >not, there's no reason to recognize anything other than 'Various > >Artists'. The option in SBS should be used only for display (and > >sorting). > > > There is no consistency - some compilations have "V/A", some "VA", some > "Various". Not really an app thing, as the data tag can come from > metadata providers, which themselves are not consistent (some are based > on user submitted values). iTunes allows the compilation tag to be set, > and doesn't need/put anything in Album Artist. > > I think it's a bad idea to put more guessing logic in the scanner - > there should be a drive to remove hard-coded guesswork, not add to it. > It would only perhaps "solve" the issue for some people, or perhaps only > partially "solve", where users have various album artist strings > denoting a compilation album, which would be even worse, as it would > look like it's working, and perhaps mask that some albums are not > displayed.
I agree with all of the above, especially the guesswork. Most of the people who care enough about these things probably put the effort into tagging their music such that guessing isn't needed. It's the fact that guessing is being used when not needed that seems to be screwing up for those having issues in this thread. -- emalvick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88072 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
