Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-28 Thread MrSinatra
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8001 -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.0.1beta - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-17 Thread snarlydwarf
Philip Meyer;292239 Wrote: I believe most people with classical music collections use Band for storing the orchestra, because there isn't a specific orchestra tag. That's a mis-use of the tag to some degree, but it isn't a mis-use of functionality. Album artist is for grouping, whereas a

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-17 Thread smc2911
Philip Meyer;292118 Wrote: Hmmm, interesting - it works for me. Eg. A single album by album artist=Alio Die Saffron Wood, has two track artists: Alio Die, Saffron Wood. Alio Die Saffron Wood appears in the browse artists list. I haven't got any other albums by either track artist,

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-17 Thread Phil Meyer
It's probably worth adding that in my problem cases, not a single track has the ALBUMARTIST as the TRACKARTIST. For example, the CD with ALBUMARTIST=Lee Perry, but the TRACKARTISTS include The Upsetters, Max Romeo, etc, but never Lee Perry. Is that the case for your album? Yes. Each song has

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-17 Thread smc2911
Philip Meyer;292541 Wrote: Yes. Each song has ALBUMARTIST=Alio Die Saffron Wood, and that artist string doesn't exist anywhere else. Each song has ARTIST=Alio Die and ARTIST=Saffron Wood, so none of the artist names match.Well, in that case I can't see the difference in our setups. Very

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-17 Thread Nonreality
Philip Meyer;292239 Wrote: If this is correct, and I assume it is as you have said it, then why are you insisting that using band tag as album artist for the lead band of an album is the wrong way? I am not really saying it is the wrong way, just not the right way for

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-17 Thread snarlydwarf
Nonreality;292587 Wrote: Everything worked as advertised other than a problem I've having with a few duplicate albums showing up containing 1 to 3 songs. It's getting these from my C: drive which I still have a copy of my library but have moved it to my K: drive (seagate usb drive). I

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-17 Thread Nonreality
snarlydwarf;292588 Wrote: Playlists or CUE sheets that point to the old files? Or something like iTunes/MusicIP that point to the old ones? Just traced it about an hour ago. I renamed my library in explored and did a scan so only the strange albums showed up. It was my playlists. I don't

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread smc2911
JimC;291850 Wrote: I'm not sure what prompted the useBandAsAlbumArtist variable to be added, or how it was intended to be used, but the whole issue of normalizing tags is currently being reviewed (there's a LOT to it) and how we will provide additional mapping flexibility has yet to be

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread Nonreality
Philip Meyer;291771 Wrote: So, my solution is to use mp3tag and add ALBUMARTIST where I think it makes sense. That approach actually has some benefits, since it frees tag BAND to be used for other purposes, like Band or Orchestra, and that helps very much for complex tagging. Exactly.

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread slimkid
So, to help out with sorting this issue, here is another point. Composer don't show on artist list even if it is ticked off in 'Composer, Band and Orchestra in Artists' setting. It would show for non compilation albums, but not for compilations regardless of wether all tracks are marked with the

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread slimkid
... and while I am on it, searching functionality doesn't work with BAND tag. K -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAj2aPdQnk

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread Nonreality
slimkid;292083 Wrote: ... and while I am on it, searching functionality doesn't work with BAND tag. K I've previously set up band to show as Album Artist in mp3tag. What is the proper method to get albumartist to show up in mp3tag. Thought I'd give your technique a shot but I have to test

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread Phil Meyer
if I have an album with multiple track artists and a single album artist who doesn't appear on any other album, no amount of option or tag tweaking will get that album artist into the artist list *without* getting the track artists in there as well (I call this the Lee Perry or Larry Levan problem

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread Greg Klanderman
snarlydwarf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is easy for me to believe because the proper place to do that is in the scanner when the db is built (specifically in MP3.pm). That section of code is used only for display, and well after the DB has been loaded. Again, it does not make sense to

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread Greg Klanderman
Phil Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if I have an album with multiple track artists and a single album artist who doesn't appear on any other album, no amount of option or tag tweaking will get that album artist into the artist list *without* getting the track artists in there as well (I

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread Greg Klanderman
JimC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're working on the best way to handle all of this. Thank you Jim, I appreciate your efforts to get to the bottom of all this tag interpretation stuff.. greg ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread Phil Meyer
Also, as has been pointed out by others, the proper place to do what has been requested is not in the scanner, because you don't want to force a rescan when changing the option. I think it should be an option appropriate only to the scanner. I believe we are NOT saying that any scanned Band

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread Phil Meyer
The one thing I'm conflicted over is that if I do have another real album by an artist that is a track artist of a single song on an album I'm using an album artist on, that album shows up with the track artist's other albums as an album of one song. Sometimes I think I don't want it to appear at

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread Wirrunna
gregklanderman;292207 Wrote: JimC JimC.37xqhz1208307601 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com writes: We're working on the best way to handle all of this. Thank you JimC, I appreciate your efforts to get to the bottom of all this tag interpretation stuff.. greg I agree with

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-16 Thread Phil Meyer
If this is correct, and I assume it is as you have said it, then why are you insisting that using band tag as album artist for the lead band of an album is the wrong way? I am not really saying it is the wrong way, just not the right way for SlimServer/SqueezeCenter, which has never supported it

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread Nonreality
Philip Meyer;291416 Wrote: Not true. It displays as Album by Artist, what SqueezeCenter is much more intelligent and conformant to standards. I dare say that something will be changed to allow it to work in a non-standard way to make it act like iTunes. I'm not sure how intelligent it

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread Phil Meyer
I'm not losing my mind over this but I'm telling you it's not a problem with my tags but with the way the Squeeze server deals with it. Oh no, not another one... I bet you it is your tags, and you haven't read the numerous posts in this thread about the differences of album artist and band. I

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread bullgod
slimkid;291396 Wrote: Look, that has been beaten up in this thread already. It is now in SD hands to do something about it. Will they - I don't know. With all the speed of addressing List by Band confusion? I won't hold my breathe. slimkid;291396 Wrote: The question is, whether you are

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread slimkid
bullgod;291679 Wrote: ...You offered me a solution to a different problem, and you're surprised I declined it. I wonder if you ever really understood the problem? ... Nice, flashy sentence. Care to elaborate? With arguments, perhaps? Show that you understood the solution I offered? K --

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread bullgod
slimkid;291690 Wrote: Nice, flashy sentence. Care to elaborate? With arguments, perhaps? Show that you understood the solution I offered? K Because your solution is already in place (viz. all tracks in the the album in question have Compilation = 0) and this does not have the desired

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread slimkid
bullgod;291720 Wrote: Because your solution is already in place (viz. all tracks in the the album in question have Compilation = 0) and this does not have the desired effect. If this isn't your solution, or I have misunderstood it in some way then I apologise unreservedly. It doesn't

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread Phil Meyer
So, my solution is to use mp3tag and add ALBUMARTIST where I think it makes sense. That approach actually has some benefits, since it frees tag BAND to be used for other purposes, like Band or Orchestra, and that helps very much for complex tagging. Exactly. That is the correct solution - tag

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread snarlydwarf
slimkid;291760 Wrote: My grudge with SD is that most of those things are not documented, or even worse, the existing docs are poor and missleading. For example, I only learned about ALBUMARTIST internal tag and its importance in prior discussion with Snarly. Now, I'm even afraid they will

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread Greg Klanderman
kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i don't think it has ANYTHING to do with mapping. TPE2 is SC7 internal tag BAND period. and no current option affects that. it currents only affects how things are denoted when displayed. correct. The pref, 'useBandAsAlbumArtist' is only used in one place

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread JJZolx
The description needs clarification no matter how you slice it. From what I've read in this thread, the current implementation, which does nothing more than use BAND as a display substitute for an album's byline, is being used as a kludge for SqueezeCenter's complete lack of support for

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread snarlydwarf
gregklanderman;291832 Wrote: It is *very* hard for me to believe with an internal name as clear as 'useBandAsAlbumArtist' that the preference was not intended to cause any BAND(TPE2) tags to be treated as though they were ALBUMARTIST tags, for exactly the reason MrSinatra wants. It is

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-15 Thread JimC
gregklanderman;291832 Wrote: kdf slim-mail (AT) deane-freeman (DOT) com writes: i don't think it has ANYTHING to do with mapping. TPE2 is SC7 internal tag BAND period. and no current option affects that. it currents only affects how things are denoted when displayed. correct.

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Phil Meyer
No it isn't good enough. Quite contrary. The most advertised tagging program here, mp3tag, allows not to change a file update date (preserves it, to be exact) I predominantly use mp3tag, which is configured to update the timestamp. You should untick Mp3Tag Options Tags Preserve file

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Phil Meyer
It works fine for not showing artists in the artist list if that is their only performance. However, it also doesn't allow you to go (following artist link, drilling down by tag) to other albums of that artist if there are any. You're right. That seems undesirable to me - it only shows other

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Phil Meyer
Perhaps, but is this thread not the continuation of a thread that I began? I'm sorry, I never saw the original thread. This one was pointed out to me from a bug that was hijacked. I don't read much in the discuss mailing list, because it's full of unnecessary chaff.

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Phil Meyer
iTunes. I'm not talking about multiple artist tags, just multiple artist in one tags. Nonetheless, iTune is still bright enough to list and sort by Album Artist. No it's not. It displays as Band. And it's far from intelligent. Quite awful in fact.

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Phil Meyer
If I understand correctly, it sounds to me as though bullgod's requirements could be met with the following additional logic: If every track has TRACKARTIST=Artist X (even if some tracks have multiple TRACKARTIST tags) and ALBUMARTIST is not already set, then set ALBUMARTIST=Artist X. No, what

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread bullgod
smc2911;291050 Wrote: If I understand correctly, it sounds to me as though bullgod's requirements could be met with the following additional logic: If every track has TRACKARTIST=Artist X (even if some tracks have multiple TRACKARTIST tags) and ALBUMARTIST is not already set, then set

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread bullgod
Philip Meyer;291157 Wrote: iTunes. I'm not talking about multiple artist tags, just multiple artist in one tags. Nonetheless, iTune is still bright enough to list and sort by Album Artist. No it's not. It displays as Band. And it's far from intelligent. Quite awful in fact. Not true.

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread bullgod
Philip Meyer;291160 Wrote: If I understand correctly, it sounds to me as though bullgod's requirements could be met with the following additional logic: If every track has TRACKARTIST=Artist X (even if some tracks have multiple TRACKARTIST tags) and ALBUMARTIST is not already set, then

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread pfarrell
JJZolx;291115 Wrote: pfarrell;291088 Wrote: JJZolx wrote: No. There's nothing in the database right now that can't be destroyed and rebuilt from scratch with a library scan. You are correct that the current implementation relies on destroying the database with every scan.

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread slimkid
Philip Meyer;291154...You should untick Mp3Tag Options Tags Preserve file modification Time when saving tags.[/QUOTE Wrote: Well, I know that. But I want to be able to use it as it serves good purpose. @snarly jjZolx too. I know that about the allocated tag space also. Point of my

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread slimkid
bullgod;291228 Wrote: No. I don't think it will. Because I have ALBUM ARTIST set, and that's what I want SC to key on. Most of my desired functionality will be achieved by turning off, or overriding, the logic that says: Albums with tracks where artists aren't all the same, implies an

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Pat Farrell
snarlydwarf wrote: That depends on the program. It can be last-modified-time, size, md4 or some other hash. MD4 is way obsolete. Use at least a SHA1. Computing md4 on every file would be rather time consuming for a fast scan: it should not be the default. I agree it has to be a user

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread slimkid
pfarrell;291350 Wrote: snarlydwarf wrote: That depends on the program. It can be last-modified-time, size, md4 or some other hash. MD4 is way obsolete. Use at least a SHA1. Computing md4 on every file would be rather time consuming for a fast scan: it should not be the

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread snarlydwarf
slimkid;291329 Wrote: @snarly jjZolx too. I know that about the allocated tag space also. Point of my post is, there are ways to recognize that the file has changed and re-scan it beyond checking the change date. No need to check all tags either (ZZolx). And the current solution is only

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread bullgod
slimkid;291332 Wrote: In order to achieve what you want, just set COMPILATION tag to 0 for every track that contains the artist you DO wish to show on the artist list. I don't like this solution because it is undocumented and it is internal and can change with the next change to scaner

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread snarlydwarf
pfarrell;291350 MD4 is way obsolete. Use at least a SHA1. [/QUOTE Wrote: I didn't say that is what I would use. I said that is what programs use in order to do incremental backups when they cannot rely on filesize or modification time. Specifically, rsync uses md4: whether you believe

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread snarlydwarf
bullgod;291362 Wrote: You, too, have missed the point. The point is not that artist fail to appear in the Artist list. The point is to get albums with tracks from different artists to appear under Home-Artist-Album Artist. I already have Compilation = 0 on all these tracks. Then

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread slimkid
bullgod;291362 Wrote: You, too, have missed the point. The point is not that artist fail to appear in the Artist list. The point is to get albums with tracks from different artists to appear under Home-Artist-Album Artist. I already have Compilation = 0 on all these tracks. But

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread bullgod
slimkid;291376 Wrote: But they should. Are you sure you are using ALBUMARTIST tag and not BAND tag? Can you check in some specialised software like mp3tag? K If you look at the picture I posted on page 10 of this thread you will see that irrespective of whatever or wherever the internal

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread grommet
FYI, to possibly add to the confusion. :D Mp3tag, a leading tagging tool, maps what is calls BAND to MP3 IDv2.3 TPE2. This is fairly normal. It also directly maps it's BAND variable to WM/AlbumArtist for WMA content, and to the aART atom for M4A content. (These two are real Album Artist

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread slimkid
bullgod;291385 Wrote: ...Look it might be Band it might be something else. I might be persuaded to use some other tool, but Mrs bullgod won't be, neither will 99.9% of the world. ... Look, that has been beaten up in this thread already. It is now in SD hands to do something about it.

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Phil Meyer
Not true. It displays as Album by Artist, what the internal representation of this is I don't care. That image is a picture of iTunes - what relevance has that to the content of your SqueezeCenter library? Out of curiosity, what version of iTunes do you use? I have v7.6.2.9 which allows the

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread grommet
Philip Meyer;291416 Wrote: Out of curiosity, what version of iTunes do you use? I have v7.6.2.9 which allows the user to show Artist, Album Artist and/or Sort Album Artist. I can't see an Album by Artist column like yours.Album by Artist is a sort view. Click on the Album column header

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Phil Meyer
I don't know if checksum would be viable option here since it would be faster to do a full clean rescan. However, there are other ways. If I was to design to solution I'd make it user cofigurable: tick whether you want it checked by date, or/and by size and/or by archive attribute and do you want

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Phil Meyer
Album by Artist is a sort view. Click on the Album column header and it'll swap between Album, Album by Artist Album By Fear as you click. Ah, thanks! It's another dodgy iTunes hack. It's only possible to sort by clicking on one column header, so when you want to sort by artist and then by

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Pat Farrell
Phil Meyer wrote: I don't know if checksum would be viable option here since it would be faster to do a full clean rescan. Yes, you could calculate a checksum, read it from the database, and if different read the file content again. Pretty pointless - a full rescan would be faster! Its

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread grommet
Philip Meyer;291506 Wrote: Sorting by Album By Fear sounds interesting. Does it put the scariest albums at the top or bottom :-)Yeah, I fixed that. :) Though that might be handy in a future release... ;-) It's not possible to sort descending.Get ready for this one: You click on the

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Phil Meyer
Get ready for this one: You click on the little arrow at the end of column header to switch between ascend and descend. How about that, you learn something new each day. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-14 Thread Nonreality
Philip Meyer;290932 Wrote: Please, please, please can the issue of which tags, which version of tags etc but put aside for one thread. I'm afraid not - it's kind of fundamental. Whilst a user may not want to care about tags, if music doesn't have tags, they can't really hope for

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread bullgod
The discussion of tags and their interpretation is entirely different to the main problem, there are too many developers here who are missing the other, and more important problem: usability. Please, please, please can the issue of which tags, which version of tags etc but put aside for one

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread Phil Meyer
The discussion of tags and their interpretation is entirely different to the main problem, there are too many developers here who are missing the other, and more important problem: usability. I'm sorry, but I disagree. I believe developers are very conscious of usability, and do a good job of

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread slimkid
Philip Meyer;290932 Wrote: The discussion of tags and their interpretation is entirely different to the main problem, there are too many developers here who are missing the other, and more important problem: usability. I'm sorry, but I disagree. I believe developers are very conscious

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread Phil Meyer
- scanner. Last time I mentioned that its functionality to recognize changed tracks isn't good enough - does it solely based on file update date vs last scan date. Is that not good enough? If tags or actual song data change, most tools that write the content back will cause the last changed

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread bullgod
Philip Meyer;290932 Wrote: bullgod;290899 Wrote: The discussion of tags and their interpretation is entirely different to the main problem, there are too many developers here who are missing the other, and more important problem: usability. I'm sorry, but I disagree. I

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread smc2911
If I understand correctly, it sounds to me as though bullgod's requirements could be met with the following additional logic: If every track has TRACKARTIST=Artist X (even if some tracks have multiple TRACKARTIST tags) and ALBUMARTIST is not already set, then set ALBUMARTIST=Artist X. You'd

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread Nonreality
I've been using album artist to keep albums together and artist so that I could see who is on the track. I started with Itunes, then went to Media Monkey and I use mp3tag to correct everything. It was with mp3tag that I discovered that I had to use band to see album artist. I didn't know about

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread Nonreality
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Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread slimkid
Philip Meyer;290980 Wrote: - scanner. Last time I mentioned that its functionality to recognize changed tracks isn't good enough - does it solely based on file update date vs last scan date. Is that not good enough? If tags or actual song data change, most tools that write the content back

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread JJZolx
slimkid;291079 Wrote: No it isn't good enough. Quite contrary. The most advertised tagging program here, mp3tag, allows not to change a file update date (preserves it, to be exact) when changing tags. Purpose of this would be that, when using New Music option (one very useful and well though

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread JJZolx
Philip Meyer;290980 Wrote: - concept and handling of 'track artist' contributor type. Basically, if there is ALBUMARTIST defined for the album, then all ARTISTs become trackartists. There is no connection between the guy who is ARTIST on one and trackartist on another album. It is not

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread Pat Farrell
JJZolx wrote: If SqueezeCenter ever gets to the point where clearing the database (which takes just a split second) is undesirable or unnecessary then add a third scan option to do a full scan without first clearing the database. Clearly the database is already undesirable. We just haven't

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread Pat Farrell
Sorry, typo alert Pat Farrell wrote: JJZolx wrote: If SqueezeCenter ever gets to the point where clearing the database (which takes just a split second) is undesirable or unnecessary then add a third scan option to do a full scan without first clearing the database. Clearly the database

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread snarlydwarf
slimkid;290974 Wrote: A code following it handles timestamp but not size. So they even knew that there was a problem but for some reason choose not to solve it. Most likely removed to speed up rescans and because it isn't as useful as you would think. Most taggers pad. This is true not

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-13 Thread JJZolx
pfarrell;291088 Wrote: JJZolx wrote: If SqueezeCenter ever gets to the point where clearing the database (which takes just a split second) is undesirable or unnecessary then add a third scan option to do a full scan without first clearing the database. Clearing the database is

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread slimkid
Hi MrSinatra, please, help me understand one thing about all this issue. You claim that you can't use existing features regarding the BAND option. I understand that ALBUMARTIST would work for you (I'm talking internal tags). Now, from a limited number of mp3 files I have, it looks like it is

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread MrSinatra
slimkid;290187 Wrote: Hi MrSinatra, please, help me understand one thing about all this issue. You claim that you can't use existing features regarding the BAND option. I understand that ALBUMARTIST would work for you (I'm talking internal tags). Now, from a limited number of mp3 files I

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread snarlydwarf
MrSinatra;290193 Wrote: i do not see why i must get yet another program and retag all my stuff AND all new future stuff. its a pointless and unnecessary extra step. You would probably want to anyway: to change TCMP (unless you went to iTunes to change just that one tag), to add various

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread MrSinatra
snarlydwarf;290194 Wrote: You would probably want to anyway: to change TCMP (unless you went to iTunes to change just that one tag), to add various sort options (ie, ARTISTSORT: does WinAmp support that? As what tag?), and because its a heck of a lot easier using mp3tag to change every

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread JimC
JJZolx;290171 Wrote: Sounds like the following is needed (my apolgies to Mr Sinatra if he already stated this, but I gave up on trying to sift through all those very long replies quite a while ago): First, there's something we'd have to come to agreement on: There just isn't a whole lot

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread snarlydwarf
MrSinatra;290160 Wrote: that was to jim, and i agree there is no TPE2 to ALBUMARTIST mapping, but my question is where are you saying the show band if ALBUMARTIST isn't defined option is? Exactly where I said it was... in Schema::Album::artist, and it is only used for -display-. It is the

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread JimC
MrSinatra;290193 Wrote: i know its a lot of posts, but i already explained this. i already have TPE2 tags. they already are the way i need them to be if SC7 would only use them for sorting, and not just labeling. i do not see why i must get yet another program and retag all my stuff

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread MrSinatra
JimC;290195 Wrote: So here's the issue, as I see it (personally speaking--I'm still waiting for enough info to make a professional call on it): Band was never supposed to be used for AlbumArtist, but it's been co-opted to this task by several applications. Given that, some people would

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread MrSinatra
snarlydwarf;290199 Wrote: Then you can have Buddy Holly appear in the B's instead of the H's... And JS Bach in the J's. Sinatra? He's over in F's. you assume two things: 1. that i don't want to use first names and 2. that my tags aren't ALREADY Sinatra, Frank since you don't know if

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread MrSinatra
that was to jim, and i agree there is no TPE2 to ALBUMARTIST mapping, but my question is where are you saying the show band if ALBUMARTIST isn't defined option is? snarlydwarf;290200 Wrote: Exactly where I said it was... in Schema::Album::artist, and it is only used for -display-. right

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread JimC
i promise you, i do not take offense to your comments, but i just want to be sure you actually understand what i am proposing before you shoot it down b/c i am not sure you do yet, which is not a knock in any way, i'm just saying i'm not sure. and i never claimed it should. i have

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread snarlydwarf
MrSinatra;290210 Wrote: since you don't know if either is true, you can't claim its a problem. And you assume I care how you organize your music. If you want Sinatra under the Q's that is your business. I think it would be truly stupid and painful to navigate that way, but it is your

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread MrSinatra
JimC;290203 Wrote: First, respecting the Txxx user defined tag IS NOT the same as mapping an existing tag to a different use. That tag is mapped directly to its intended use; it is not redefined to mean something else internally. The TPE2 tag is also used exactly as it was intended--to

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread Phil Meyer
- We clarify the option to mean: Use id3v2 tags' TPE2 (Band) to be equivalent to AlbumArtist in Mp3 files. Move it out from under the 'Compilation' heading. I would suggest creating maybe an 'Mp3 Tags' heading, or possibly a 'Scanning Options' heading or page. So the option would no

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread MrSinatra
JimC;290213 Wrote: Here's the real problem: you think of this a simply an option, because on the surface that's the simple way to see it. However, the reality--as everyone has tried to point out--is that this isn't a simple solution and handling it in the way you suggest may have all kinds

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread Phil Meyer
and that means SC7 has no reasonable method to sort all albums for users who do not have user defined tags in their files. I think you meant sort all artists. SC does - it sorts by artist if there is not album artist. If you want an option to sort by Band, then there should also be options to

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread MrSinatra
snarlydwarf;290214 Wrote: And you assume I care how you organize your music. If you want Sinatra under the Q's that is your business. I think it would be truly stupid and painful to navigate that way, but it is your library. always good for a laugh, huh? maybe i assume since you said You

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread MrSinatra
Philip Meyer;290225 Wrote: - Permit sorting of albums by BAND in the manner suggested (somewhere) previously. By using a hierarchy of ALBUMARTIST, BAND, VA, ARTIST(s) when determining the album's primary contributor. Disagree. If id3 TPE2 tag is mapped to SqueezeCenter Album

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread MrSinatra
Philip Meyer;290229 Wrote: and that means SC7 has no reasonable method to sort all albums for users who do not have user defined tags in their files. I think you meant sort all artists. SC does - it sorts by artist if there is not album artist. no, i specifically said what i said on

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread smc2911
Philip Meyer;290242 Wrote: My own view is that if the ALBUMARTIST tag exists for every track on an album, it would be nice *not* to classify it as Various Artists whether or not COMPILATION is set. Currently, if you have COMPILATION=1 and Group Compilation Albums together, it's almost as

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread Phil Meyer
My own view is that if the ALBUMARTIST tag exists for every track on an album, it would be nice *not* to classify it as Various Artists whether or not COMPILATION is set. Currently, if you have COMPILATION=1 and Group Compilation Albums together, it's almost as though ALBUMARTIST is ignored: the

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread vrobin
The message I wrote earlier about some sort of tag mapping customization seems to have been overwhelmed by tpe2/band/albumartist/txxx messages. Is the idea totally broken? or definitely too complicated ? or not user friendly enough? and doesn't worth talking about it? To answer MrSinatra, I can

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

2008-04-11 Thread snarlydwarf
MrSinatra;290239 Wrote: so first of all, its not a problem by definition to not have a non-standard tag. nor is it necessarily missing. i did not find TCMP on http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0 i also found no reference to the word compilation on that page. Yes, it is one of your defacto

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