I just found http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerSupportedTags , which lists the supported tags. I was pleasantly surprised to find some stuff in it that I have been aching for for a long time: ARTISTSORT, ALBUMSORT, and TITLESORT.
So, those are great, but I have three suggestions: (1) There are no BANDSORT, COMPOSERSORT, and CONDUCTORSORT? Why not? There should be. (2) The page says that "Artist, Album and Title sort order behaviour is unpredictable when multiple values are used." The way this should work is this (using ARTIST and ARTISTSORT as a representative example): First, the ARTIST and ARTISTSORT tags should be paired in order. So, for example, consider: ARTIST=John Lennon ARTIST=Yoko Ono ARTISTSORT=Lennon, John ARTISTSORT=Ono, Yoko SlimServer should match the first ARTIST with the first ARTISTSORT, and the second with the second. So the above example is tagged correctly, while the following represents poor tagging: ARTIST=John Lennon ARTIST=Yoko Ono ARTISTSORT=Ono, Yoko ARTISTSORT=Lennon, John If you do that (which you shouldn't), then SlimServer should sort "John Lennon" under "O", and "Yoko Ono" under "L". If there are more ARTIST tags than ARTISTSORT tags, then SlimServer should just implicitly assume ARTIST is equal to ARTISTSORT for those having only one. (3) When SlimServer displays all artists for a song/album together, the artists should be listed in the order that they appear in the tags, NOT in any alphabetical order or other order. So, for example, consider: ALBUM=Double Fantasy ARTIST=John Lennon ARTIST=Yoko Ono Then, since Lennon was listed in the tags before Ono, SlimServer should display this album as "Double Fantasy by John Lennon, Yoko Ono", and NOT "Double Fantasy by Yoko Ono, John Lennon". Incidentally, this latter seems not to work today. I have a song which is tagged as: TITLE=Gone Fishin' ARTIST=Louis Armstrong ARTIST=Bing Crosby And SlimServer displays it as "Gone Fishin' by Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong". This is not because "B" comes before "L", because I have other songs that don't back that theory. But in any case, the multiple artists (when displayed together) should ALWAYS be displayed in tag order, not in alphabetical order or anything similar. -- aaaaaaaa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aaaaaaaa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11789 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35716 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
