JJZolx;651594 Wrote: > 7.6 has a lot of little browsing problems like this. The behavior, > before and after the changes, is almost arbitrary. If it worked one way > previously and differently now, then you'd be hard pressed to explain > that either was by design.
i couldn't agree with that more! excellent diagnosis! Philip Meyer;651607 Wrote: > It's crying out for a preference to select whether a link is a > contributor link or an artist link, but the developers don't like > settings. thats funny, b/c you're usually the one arguing against them! frank1969;651743 Wrote: > Fine to see some share my opinion. > > One thing I think we should keep in mind, for some people said most > Files have no Album artist or composer tag at all: > > SBS/LMS should NOT be optimized for people owning illegal-downloaded, > bad-taged-stolen mp3-files, > > But for those buying them LEGALLY on iTunes/amazon mp3 (they're > completely tagged) or people taking some time for ripping and tagging > their legal CD-collection. So if they have Album artist/composer > tagged, they wanna "use" it best way possible... i don't think "illegal" files or bad tags have anything to do with this. most "legal" apps put AA tags on everything, and some don't. those that don't usually use comp tags instead. but i think this points out an entirely different issue that logitech is studiously avoiding: SBS works by creating "one master list" of artists. you can not easily switch between browsing your AA tags and your artist tags, on the fly, and without switching options and rescanning, etc... its just a PITA. SBS will assign an AA role to something even if you have no AA tags, which a lot of users don't understand. and to make things worse, SBS [potentially] assigns 3 roles for only two tags. there are SO many issues revolving around this paradigm, its crazy. i can't think of ANY other software that has a "home>whatever" structure, or any other software that doesn't let you easily switch on the fly between browsing artists and album artists, just as an example. SBS is voodoo, it is arbitrary as pretty much everyone has admitted in this thread. in any case Frank, i think erland alluded to a potential solution, one that sounds good to me. SBS could provide multiple links where results would be filtered: contributer AA A Composer instead of just the one link it does now. but maybe that isn't easy to do, or takes up too much space, i don't know. JJZolx;651755 Wrote: > That may be, but the problem here has little to do with poor tagging. > It's about the mess that SBS makes of things when a library is tagged > thoroughly and includes Composer tags. or other good tags, and i couldn't agree more. the UI needs an overhaul. the one master list and the home>whatever paradigm SUCKS. it might work to some degree, and plugins might make it work a lot closer to how it should be out of the box, but neither is an excuse to accept and continue the mediocrity of the current problematic solution. and the evidence of those problems is in literally endless threads and bugs. lets make it better! -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & droid (my home) / duet & ipeng (parents' home) - sbs 7.5.5b - win7 ie9 & xp pro sp3 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 49k+ mp3/flac ::VOTE FOR 'BUG 15604' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15604)!!!:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89708 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
