>What is the informational or typographical value of leading or trailing >spaces? > If there is no benefit of leading or trailing spaces being there, then delete them from source.
What are we going to do - delete white space from every possible tag, even though it only matters for artist/album tags? >The fact that they haven't been trimmed by other software is completely >irrelevant - 2 wrongs don't make a right! > Until you consider iTunes and MusicIP import plugins, when the data won't then match if it needs to compare source with DB content. There may be the occasional thing that doesn't match between the two apps that will cause problems. >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. So if the problemmatic tags were fixed at source, it would be solved in all apps. A library of 100000 songs with 10 tags in each file would be 1,000,000 LTRIMs and RTRIMs, to fix what could be a small handfull of mistakes at source. Or set up a filter in Mp3Tag to find tags with leading or trailing spaces, and a macro to remove them and run it as a once-off on every matching file. Problem then solved for every app, and keeps the scan time down. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
