>All strings/fields used as keys/foreign keys/search items should be >left/right space-trimmed. No need for a debate. Leading/trailing spaces >have no typographical or informational value and are pure noise - and >are always an error. No need for any complex options. Untrue. If it were true, there wouldn't be any leading/trailing spaces in any tags anywhere in the world, because they would have already been trimmed by all other ripping/tagging software.
But as I have demonstrated, all software that I have tried is not messing with the tag values - they are honoured as entered. If a user wants a space at the end of their artist name, let them have it. If a user doesn't want that effect, because they got dodgy tags from a dodgy source, they can edit it with a tag editor. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
