Philip Meyer;645145 Wrote: > >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. Sigh.
Of course it's true. What is the informational or typographical value of leading or trailing spaces? The fact that they haven't been trimmed by other software is completely irrelevant - 2 wrongs don't make a right! You are not looking at the problem from a data modelling/database design perspective. It's only when tags get used in that context that this becomes an issue. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88154 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
