@catbus: i'm not sure how you think winamp is "broken" but it is not broken.
yes, it uses TPE2 to mean album artist, but so what? all mainstream apps do; and if it used TXXX ALBUMARTIST nothing i said or complained about would be any different. why? b/c SC can be made to treat TPE2 as album artist. so other than that moot issue, i don't see how winamp is "broken?" i do see how it is far more flexible and powerful in its presentation of my library, both scanning and browsing, (not to mention editing but i'm not asking SC to be an editor). Philip Meyer;413567 Wrote: > >> >i think SC does FAR TOO MANY automations and assumptions. > >> It doesn't - there's hardly any. > >thats your opinion, one i don't share. > > > You say there are far too many automations and assumptions, yet you > can't remember any more other than the one you are wrong about ;-) the only person wrong in this thread was you, who are you kidding? i named the VA logic, AND the separate greatest hits logic. there are other similar situations etc, i just forget them, (they aren't as broad). but i will post em if i come across them again. Philip Meyer;413567 Wrote: > > >> >for instance, having an album artist tag to SC means it CAN'T be a > comp. > >> Untrue. Set a compilation tag, and it is always a compilation. > It's not complicated. > >just when i think you're being reasonable, you say this as if i don't > know it. > >what i said IS TRUE. > > > What you said is not true. You said "having an album artist means it > can't be a compilation". That is incorrect. If you add an album > artist tag, and also want the album to be classified as a compilation, > you can also add a compilation tag. no duh phil, no duh. look at the context again, i wasn't talking about IF this or IF that or other tags, i was talking about album artist tags, thats it, vis a vis SC, and what i said is true. and moreover the salient point i was trying to make is that SC shouldn't imo make assumptions about something being a comp or not simply based on if that tag is present. but you don't want to hear it, and don't like what i'm saying, so you set up a strawman that i never argued against. i already quoted what i said earlier in the thread, no need to do it again, (ie. you didn't tell me anything i hadn't already said myself!) Philip Meyer;413567 Wrote: > > >but the point is that absent anything else, (and i wasn't talking > about > >other tags) that if you set an album artist tag SC says it can't be a > >comp. that is TRUE. > > > I don't see your point. If you have an album artist tag and don't set > a compilation tag, it's not a compilation. Are you saying that you > think that's a bad assumption for SC to make? The only other > alternative would be for SC to assume it was a compilation, but that > would be a worse assumption. my point is that the VA logic itself is unnecessary. having the tag or not having it should have no bearing at all on what/how SC classifies it, UNLESS the user OPTS to use the VA logic. at the very least, they should be able to opt out. and this issue just illustrates SCs limited browsing abilities, ie. what goes into the "artists" list at any one time. but as i said, perhaps the new schema will bring in a whole new era to the navigation and options and scanning etc... i'm sure we can both agree that things could be a lot better and not as complicated. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 (my home) / sbr (parent's home) / sbc (my home) - w/sc 7.3.3b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - 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=61689 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
