I'm trying not going to get dragged into that conversation again... >first, all the posts about TPE2 in the forum. theres a lot of them. Haven't noticed many myself, and it's totally irrelevant anyway. People posting on a forum are not representative of Joe public.
I think you are also missing the point as to how infrequent an Album Artist should be required. I have a reasonabe size library. I have a variety of tastes in music, ranging through pop, rock, alternative, electronic, ambient, classical. I'm also a power user, and go to great lengths to tag my library as correct as possible to aid my ability to browse my library. I have a very small percentage of albums that require album artist. I have a larger percentage of albums that I have seen fit to add a proper band tag for. I am sure that when I have ripped albums in the past with WMP (admittedly, I haven't done so for about 4 years), it did not set album artist. If you use Gracenote's album lookup for a compilation album, it sets artist=Various Artists. Tagging providers, which are also largely provided from community-based uploads, do not have a standard. The whole situation is a mess. >i think if SC aggregates stats, and i think they do What makes you think that? I think they probably don't. Where do you think they get stats from? >i'd even be willing to say it should be the default for new installs. > Absolutely not! >i admit, i am guessing from observed evidence Your first 5 words were correct... >but i base it off of the marketplace leader apps ??? >I'd even guess you use it, (as per 8004, right?) > You guessed wrong. >and who knows how many people were in my boat who got turned off by SC >since it had no option pre 7.1? About the same number of people who got turned off other leading market applications because those apps don't provide a means for adding band tags. >but yes, it would be interesting to get a snapshot in time of just what >tags each app is using, and how when ripping, and/or auto-retagging / >renaming files. > I think that the results could be useful as a wiki page. Might help with schema/SC scanner options design for SC7.3. >one thing i am sure of, MOST mp3 users, BY FAR, are using TPE2 as album >artist in the apps, and NOT as band (which would be by spec). > No. MOST mp3 users, BY FAR do not use either, because in MOST CASES it is not relevant. >amount of users actually using TPE2 for strictly and purposely for >"band" is probably under 1% > Not for classical music listeners, who also use the tag for Orchestra (TPE2=BAND/ORCHESTRA). Phil _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
