reinholdk wrote: > The same is true for me, as explained above. The silliness came from > imagining the possible outcome of an automatically (rule-based) > generated artistsort tag. >
True... I don't use rule based but rather the web-based db's typically do an OK job of filling things in for me. Otherwise, I always visually make sure things make sense to me. Rule-based does open things up to the extreme outcomes that aren't even that extreme when you think about it. > > But, when browsing for an artist, you don't have problems in recognizing > the current letter while scrolling? > In the meantime I do, since my library is growing. But the level of > suffering is not yet big enough to change tags. I guess you are referring to seeing the letters even though the displayed names are not the sort? THis is part of why I focus on Album Artist; My Album ARtist is usually set to the sort tag, thus a Elton John album would display as John, Elton when browsing Album Artist. The Artist tag for any song or album would still show as ELton John (but sorted under J). But, I use the Custom-Browse plug-in to only browse by Album-Artist because that is my listening habit. When I need to find songs by a specific track artist, then I often just use the search functions. I've also found that by using the Android App SqueezeCommander, it shows me the browse letter if I am going through things fast. My library is at about 25,000 tracks with a lot of artists. The nice thing with more artists and songs is that you do scroll through letters longer and it makes it actually easier to recognize what letter you are browsing through. Last, I've also gone as far as setting a menu system such that the top level of my album artists was the first letter. THis allowed me to narrow down to one letter first and then browse the album-artists under that letter. That was mostly used when I was only using my Duet's remote. WIth the Android app, the browsing is much easier. I generally find it is just a matter of what works. I've shifted my browsing habits based on library size and control method and tagging needs. It can be tough to adjust but it becomes easy if you use it a lot. The squeezebox system changed things quite a bit for me because a lot of the tags like the sort ones and compilation ones were not supported in my previous library manager and system. I've taken advantage of some (Sort Tags) but not all (Compilation) just because other systems (my PMP, Computer Player) are still limited. It's unfortunate that not all the software have adopted all the tags out there or have the flexibility the Squeeze system has. It hasn't stopped me from using the Squeeze system and taking advantage of some items, but I can't discard tags that I need to make my other devices work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97809 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
