Nonreality;309437 Wrote: > My guess it because of the proper use of tags. Not everyone does. Also > Comp is a tag that Itunes seems to use a lot. When I first started here > I thought my tags were fairly good coming from Itunes. It had used the > comp on a lot of albums that had one guest on them. Not what I wanted.
i'm not sure i understand your points here. bad tags are bad tags. i wouldn't expect SC to output anything but garbage if garbage is input. my question is what is the purpose of knowing if something is a comp or not as far as SC is concerned? it looks like Jim has some good examples... JJZolx;309438 Wrote: > A few just off of the top of my head: > > So that "track-only" artists can be suppressed from the artist list > when browsing artists. Jim, can you expound on this? it alone absolutely seems like reason enough. i did not know the comp classification did this. however, what if you did NOT want such suppression? JJZolx;309438 Wrote: > To determine formatting and presentation in web and other interfaces. > A compilation album is most often by "Various Artists". Otherwise > you're left to choose one (which is wrong) or all of them (we've seen > that before, and it's very ugly). i'm afraid i don't quite follow you here... what do you mean "choose one" or "all of them." what exactly is the problem you are running into here, if a VA album is not classified as a comp, with the web interface? JJZolx;309438 Wrote: > Grouping. Having a pseudo-artist of "Various Artists" means that > users can easily find these albums under that artist. > right... but then again, proper tagging could accomplish that. i mean if its a question of sorting, tagging seems better equipped to handle that issue then identifying something as a comp or not, (which can be hit or miss). JJZolx;309438 Wrote: > If any/all/none of the above work as you expect in SqueezeCenter then > it's an implementation issue, not a conceptual one. Go to a music > store and you'll undoubtedly see (probably by genre) a bin with > compilation albums that can't be grouped under a particular artist. i absolutely agree that some albums need to be grouped together. i would have a Various Artists section for sure. but i might also have a Soundtracks section, and i might want that separate from the VA section, (like say, under soundtracks) and so on... -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.1beta - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48591 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
