Ceejay, you make an important point. The Squeezebox is typically going to display "ARTIST - TITLE - ALBUM". But if ARTIST is used for the soloist, then how do we know whose "Symphony No. 9" it is (well, duh...but not all examples will be so obvious).
Ceejay has enhancement requests to be able to browse the personnel tags six ways from Sunday, but the question of what to display remains open. I think that clearly the composer should be shown along with the title of the work, and the movement. But we may want to know who the top-billed performer is, as well -- either the conductor or the soloist. So just to throw an idea out there, which may be excessively complicated: COMPOSER(artist) - TITLE -[ PART -] ARTIST(album) or COMPOSER(artist) - TITLE -[ PART -][ ARTIST -] ALBUM Values in () are used if the preceding tag is empty, values in [] are only displayed if the tag exists. That should give you normal pop music behavior for tracks without the classical tags, or the desired classical music display when those tags are present. The downside of this scheme is that sometimes pop music does include the COMPOSER tags. One track of an album by The Police may have COMPOSER=Sting, and another may have COMPOSER=A. Summers. As for how to add a symphony to the playlist, it would be nice if slimserver could treat sequential tracks with the same TITLE as a unit. Instead of the browse tree looking like ALBUM->TRACK it could look like ALBUM->TITLE(->PART) With the TITLEs sorted in track order. -- John Stimson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Stimson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=218 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20850 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
