mr-b wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it possible for the media scanner to ignore common variants of Artist
> names to avoid duplicates in the Artist list?
> (I'm sure this will have been asked before but I couldn't find the
> answer.)
>
> For example normalising "The", &, 'and', punctuations and case
Ok tx, I was sure that this must have been considered before.
Yes I can imagine if this was the default behviour then it could well be
disruptive. Maybe if the functionality could just be an opt-in feature,
might it be usable? It seems a shame to lose some potential benefits if
some work has
Is it possible for the media scanner to ignore common variants of Artist
names to avoid duplicates in the Artist list?
(I'm sure this will have been asked before but I couldn't find the
answer.)
We actually did this by default in the past. But it was never good
enough: what was an ok solution
The issue with scripts is that you have to keep on running them. Yes the
ideal is to fix the tags at source, but it's a nver ending task as one
adds to the library.
The LMS scanner would just do it in the database each time.
The taste aspect could be catered for by specifying which would be the
mr-b wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it possible for the media scanner to ignore common variants of Artist
> names to avoid duplicates in the Artist list?
> (I'm sure this will have been asked before but I couldn't find the
> answer.)
>
> For example normalising "The", &, 'and', punctuations and case
