JJZolx;290039 Wrote: > As an option I don't understand the objection to using TPE2 as > ALBUMARTIST. If you don't want it used as such, then TPE2 should > remain mapped to BAND.
I objected to the "this affects all mp3 users" (which is clearly wrong, it does not affect me at all, nor apparently does it affect JimC and most likely a ton of others who do not use TPE2 for ALBUMARTIST) and the insistence that following the specifications is somehow a 'workaround'. If it is changed, it must be an option or lots of people will have their tags break. (And I also object to calling it 'Album Artist'.. it is not the name of the tag, or the normalized tag, and it is confusing and misleading to talk about it as such.) > > The current wording of the 'List albums by band' option, though, and > placing it under the heading 'Compilations' in the settings is > enormously confusing. My understanding has been that the mapping of > TPE2 is _all_ the option is supposed to do, but that's never been > verified. I don't honestly think anyone knows for sure at this point. > Does it also map BAND tags in Flac/Ogg/Ape to ALBUMARTIST? Maybe that's > desirable, maybe not. The code that uses that flag is Schema::Album::artist. It is used precisely once, and makes no reference to TPE2, since that is called long after tags are normalized. So, yes, any change to how that flag works now would affect all formats that had a BAND tag. >From the comments, if there is no ALBUMARTIST assigned to an album, and it is trying to figure out who to attribute it to for listing, it returns the BAND. It is never sorted, it is only displayed. Note this is only for listing. Unless I missed something, this is the only place this is used, and only affects the HTML generation. This was most likely meant to be used for a case like this: Album: Brandenburg Concertos Artist: JS Bach TPE2: Duluth Harmonica Quintet To distinguish it from: Album: Brandenburg Concertos Artist: JS Bach TPE2: Cleveland Symphony Orchestra That set of tags (indent means 'these are tracks',... and yes I skipped a ton of tags that are irrelevant to the illustration) would display: Brandenburg Concertos (Duluth Harmonica Quintet) Brandenburg Concertos (Cleveland Symphony Orchestra) which lets you distinguish between the two. (And, yeah, yeah, Bach should not be TPE1/Artist, but for a lot of people that tagging scheme makes more sense in their collection and tastes.) So there you have what the flag does... it is simply for display and is useful to seperate similarly named works when 'albumartist' is not really the correct setting. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46093 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
