On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <phi...@foolip.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 16:20, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote:
>> On 7/7/2011 3:47 AM, Andii Hughes wrote:
>>> If it was decided that the comment was to *only* be used for ETI data,
>>> I could live with it. Though it means a large number of users will
>>> have to move this data back into the title for tagging, it solves the
>>> parsing problem of distinguishing ETI from the main title. But that
>>> only works if the comment is just for that or a new ETI field is
>>> introduced. If the comment remains an undefined freeform field for
>>> any text, it shouldn't be used for ETI data as it presents a nightmare
>>> for those of us who want to keep this useful title information
>>> distinct from random comments.
>>
>> Is there some misunderstanding as to the purpose of the comment field?
>>
>> It's not a place to put random information like 'this is the best track
>> on the album' or something.
>
> The problem is when it's used for disambiguating recordings which
> didn't have any ETI on the cover. A common case is where one release
> is missing the intro. It's not at all helpful to see "(with intro)" or
> "(without intro)" in your tags. The same goes for remasters, you
> certainly don't want "(2004 remaster)" on every single track of a
> remaster.
>
> So, while not exactly being random information, the comments will
> contain information which doesn't belong in tags, normalized or
> otherwise.
Couldn't a Picard script look for specific strings in comments
("live", for example) and append just those to the name?
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