I have posted a modified FLAC.pm on the Beta forum
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26660 that addresses
requests 1 and 2, as well as supporting works with multiple movements.
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Bill Jackson
Bill Jackson's
Nearly. I think there is an unnecessary and undesirable extra layer of
indirection in the scheme Ceejay suggests. If there is going to be an
extra tag, it should just be WORK, rather than an indicator of whether
WORK=ALBUM or WORK=SONG. (That requires you to respect the ALBUM=WORK
convention.
Tom
Agreed that the SHUFFLEMODE idea is a bit clumsy. WORK is better, as
you say you could have an assumption that WORK=TRACK if absent.
You'd still have to modify the code that creates the database and
populates it during the scanning process (which would be a good time to
make the
ceejay Wrote:
Well, this is why I and many others abuse
the Album tag by using it to identify a multi-movement
work... as described in the Wiki. I think this works pretty
well already, it just takes a little effort when you are
ripping.
It is a good idea given the limitations, and I do
tom permutt Wrote:
It is a good idea given the limitations, and I do it, but I
don't think it works pretty well. What's wrong with it is
sometimes a classical piece is more like a song than an album.
Tom,
of course you're right, this is a long way from perfect, I guess it
depends on how
Ceejay - I'm sure you're right. The information we want cannot quite be
encoded as Title or as Album, because it doesn't match either for other
kinds of music. So, it needs another tag, but that won't do any good
until players recognize it.
Technically, I think the best right-now solution
ShorinSean Wrote:
Thanks for the thoughtful replies. The virtual albums is an innovative
idea, once I get the time for it. I see a paraphrase of an old saying:
A digital library's tags are never finished - only abandoned. Or
There is always one more tag (to be tweaked). That's why, even
There has been much discussion of tagging deficiencies when it comes to
classical music. Frankly, this has not been a huge issue for me, even
though I have a fair amount of classical music in my collection. No, I
cant track what color shirt Mozart was wearing when he scrawled out
Eine Kleine
Thanks for the thoughtful replies. The virtual albums is an innovative
idea, once I get the time for it. I see a paraphrase of an old saying:
A digital library's tags are never finished - only abandoned. Or
There is always one more tag (to be tweaked). That's why, even though
none of the data in
Hi all,
Thanks for the hard work in submitting the design change requests for
classical users. My wife is a professional clarinetist with the East
Texas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Wind Symphony, and as a result
we have a large classical collection.
As new owners of iPods for the family,
ShorinSean Wrote:
one of the playback areas that's lack is the ability to select and play
multi-movement songs as one. This is a real pain for my wife, and she
has a short technology fuse. When I see her digging in the attic for
the CDs I know we still have a usability problem :).
I see
I'm only asking, to have a way to save my files to WAV
and tag them like Flac can be done or have Slimserver recognise
the data created by EAC and present it in the same format?
I tried a quick experiment. I added a WAV file to iTunes library and
then used the Get Info command to add tags.
ceejay Wrote:
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(4) it all has to go in the database somewhere, you risk making lots of
empty columns which hardly anyone is using
(5) you need UI code to do something with it which needs to be written
and maintained
Ceejay
A couple of comments based on my current understanding
Is there any reason why the tags can't be expanded to a really useful
size? It is not just classical music collectors who need expanded
tags, but any large collection could use much more than the standard
stuff.
I am thinking of record company disc catalog numbers, classical catalog
numbers
Whilst you are doing all these manly chores would it be possible, I'm
only asking, to have a way to save my files to WAV and tag them like
Flac can be done or have Slimserver recognise the data created by EAC
and present it in the same format? Please.
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ALYNN PENE
ceejay Wrote:
6: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2701 - Need ability to
browse multiple tags in flexible order (Multi-Level Browse)
Of these, the last one is the most important - the others either lay
necessary foundations or are interim measures.
Okay, see, and this is why
ALYNN PENE Wrote:
Whilst you are doing all these manly chores would it be possible, I'm
only asking, to have a way to save my files to WAV and tag them like
Flac can be done or have Slimserver recognise the data created by EAC
and present it in the same format? Please.
Don't think that's
tyler_durden Wrote:
Is there any reason why the tags can't be expanded to a really useful
size? It is not just classical music collectors who need expanded
tags, but any large collection could use much more than the standard
stuff.
I am thinking of record company disc catalog numbers,
As someone who doesn't listen to classical but does have a fairly
non-standard collection, pretty much all except number 2 would be great
for me. The flexible multi-level browse (which I've also suggested in
the past!) would also be a nice solution for those wanting seperate
libraries (e.g. one
I was involved in the development of these requests and think they will
really improve the browsing experience for a large classical music
library.
As radish comment, specifying a user defined tag and browsing tags in
the sequnce you need should have a variety of uses.
Do I need to vote in a
Listener Wrote:
I was involved in the development of these requests and think they will
really improve the browsing experience for a large classical music
library.
As radish comment, specifying a user defined tag and browsing tags in
the sequnce you need should have a variety of uses.
Ceejay and Listener,
Thank you very much for all your time and hard work on this project. I
am pleased to add my vote for each of the enhancement requests.
I am a relative newbie to classical music but now have a regularly
growing collection of, at present, about 200 CD's, in addition to about
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