>ok, but i guess what i meant is it might not ALSO work with other apps >that might be equally important to you, and/or you might get the "wrong" >genre entry reported, ie the secondary one, etc... meaning unwanted >results that would be a pain to fix. > >as you pointed out elsewhere, itunes as an example doesn't work with >separator characters, and likewise some apps wouldn't handle multiple >frames right either. same thing. > In my experience, apps that don't support multiple tags will just read the first tag for each item. So, I make the first genre the primary genre, and additional genres are secondary information that better apps can make use of. The effect is that lower quality apps, like iTunes, don't look too bad.
eg. Dire Straits - Alchemy, may have GENRE=Rock, GENRE=Live. In iTunes, it would appear as an album under Rock genre. In SqueezeCenter, I can make use of the additinal genre information to produce better mixes, eg. Play random Rock music, but not live songs. If I used GENRE=Rock;Live, then in iTunes the album has a genre called Rock;Live, which is naff. It means that if I try to browse all Rock albums, I don't get to see this album, etc. >having said that, the way i look at it is that the ARTIST ta denotes >artist, and AA is just for placement. Album Artist is not just about placement/sort ordering. It's meant to be used for grouping differing artists on an album to appear as a single album artist name. If you want to tweak the sorting, use an Album Artist Sort tag (I believe ALBUMARTISTSORT works). >i don't want "Rodney Dangerfield" followed by Rolling Stones. >i want all the comedy grouped together in the list, thats the point. > You do know that Browse Albums supports different sorting modes - you can sort by genre, artist, which would mean all comedy albums would be grouped together and be sorted by album artist within that category? If sorting Browse Albums by Artist, wouldn't you expect them to be sorted by artist? Seems really bizarre to me. >i don't put "xmas" in AA tags, i use folder hierarchy for that. > So some of your library is categories by genre tags, some categoried by album artist, and some categoried by folder name. Jeez, you like to be different don't you! _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
