emalvick;670969 Wrote: > My biggest source of problems with multiple artist tags has been the > "artist sort" field. In some cases the automatic metadata entries have > this field set and I don't necessarily notice. It's a field I'm not > used to having and usually neglect, but it can cause problems.
+1 Amen , one of those tags somewhere sorts -all- the albums with the artist not only the album that has the tag. bug or feature a philosophical question it depends on pow. A file should sort as it is tagged ok. (and should sort the same in all music software in the best of worlds) But a music database is (or should be sbs/lms can improve here ) more than the sum of it's tag's so an -artist- may have a user preferred sort order. But is it right to set that from another random file in the database ? Imo it should be so that we have to set the artist sort (if we want it ) in all files with that artist for minimum of confusion . (or second best in in sbs/lms ) Further you have artistsort artist sort artistsortorder . . albumartist sort . . composer sort I think it is a bit messy to let these tags in one file influence the sorting of other files . In reality the tag anal user would edit all concerned files anyway if special sort order is desired and not just edit one file to set the sorting ? It would give you a more reasonable and simple failure mode. If all Miles Davis albums is sortet Davis Miles ? and you have 72 of them + compilatiosn where he apear and you have to find one offending tag somewhere . Versus the situation where you have 71 albums sorted under Miles Davis and one stray Davis Miles, then you know what's up :) But the current sorting feature is preferred by many forum members for reasons I do not really understand and logitech/slimdevices thinks that this is as it should be . it is probably a legacy feature from 10 year in the past. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91571 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
