Steve - 
Thanks for your message.  Also, I certainly appreciate all your work on
building the wiki on Compilations.  I am willing to try to take a close
look at it and make sure it ends up as good as it can be (and all
credit to you for how good it is now!)  I think I started trying to
figure out this issue before the Compilations wiki was up and running,
and did not think to look back for a new page as I proceeded.

At this point, I think there are two very important things that need to
be addressed before revising the wiki on compilations:

1.  We REALLY need someone (I think the developers) to update the
Supported Tags list that is on the wiki.  Furthermore, we need to
develop some explanation for the use of many of the tags.  I believe
the inadequacy of the tags information is the primary reason that
things are so difficult.  As I have previously noted, there is no
indication on the wiki that ALBUMARTIST is a viable tag.  Other
mysteries abound - how is BAND supposed to be used in a FLAC context? 
Are DATE and YEAR the same, and does SC associated them with the Track
or the Album?  Is ALBUMARTISTSORT supported?
Etc Etc.  Everyone of these items affects compilation questions and
other multiple artist albums.  I think it would be very helpful to SC
users if they could frame out the total tag requirements for their
collections, as editing tags on a large collection can be time
consuming - if possible, I only want to add fields once.

2.  Related to both my first point and your wiki, I think it would be
helpful to separate discussions of MP3/ID3 tagging and FLAC/Vorbis
tagging.  Not saying separate wikis, just separate and distinct
sections.  I don't even think it is very apparent to most new SC users
that ID3 tags are not used for FLAC files!  I think this separation can
be easily accomplished once point #1 has been addressed.

I don't have a sense of who we look to for updating supported tags list
and description of use within SC.  Anyone know the answer to this?


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