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 variants > would prevent these from all being listed as different artists: > > The Smiths > Smiths, The > 2 many dj's > 2 Many DJ's > 2 many dj"s > Babes in toyland > Babes In Toyland > Belle & Sebastian > Belle and Sebastian > Belle And Sebastian > > > Yes I know I could spend (even more) time with mp3tag but it'd be really > handy to have an LMS scanner option to do this automagically.
I have dozens of scripts that run with regexes in mp3tag to do this kind of thing automatically. The problem is really one of taste - maybe you or I want The Smiths but there will be plenty who prefer Smiths, The... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112988 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
