Philip Meyer;478949 Wrote: > >as is often the case, you look at users from the POV of how they > SHOULD > >be, esp to work with how SBS is now; whereas i look at users as how > they > >come to SBS, and what, if anything, can SBS do to work better with > them > >as is. > > > Yeah, right!
do you disagree? i thought that was a pretty fair summation. your default position seems to be most of the time that users should change their tags to work with SBS, rather than SBS being changed to work with users. just an observation, not a judgment. Philip Meyer;478949 Wrote: > > >as aubuti noted, 1/1 implies there are no other discs. > But disc=<blank> implies the songs were not on a disk. i disagree. if they are in the same folder, and if they have the same album tag name, i think it implies that they are part of the same album, and that an app simply didn't fully tag it properly. as i noted, WMP is often guilty of this. why else would they be in that folder, and otherwise tagged that way? Philip Meyer;478949 Wrote: > If there were tracks 1, 2, 3, and another file with no track, I wouldn't > assume track 4, because track=<blank> means no track number. Similarly > if all songs had genre=Rock, except for one that was blank, I wouldn't > assume it was a rock track. what if it were 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, and blank? i think assuming 4/4 would be safe. the key is the #/4 denominator part. but tracks are for another thread. genre is different b/c it has no numerical denominator and its not uncommon to have differing genres on one album, or even multiple genres per track. we are considering here only a very specific case: X files = Disc=1/1 and Y files = Disc=<blank> but both in the same folder and sharing the same album tag name. Philip Meyer;478949 Wrote: > If anything, it would be better to assume that disk=1/1 means no disk, > rather than disk=<blank> was meant to be 1/1. i guess i could support that, but whats the difference? Philip Meyer;478949 Wrote: > But assuming that <blank> was actually meant to be something else gives > the user no way to override that behaviour. eg. if you want a song to > have no disk number (for whatever reason). not true. you could simply place the track in a different folder, even a subfolder of the orig album folder. but when you say 'for whatever reason,' you have to have at least one plausible one. i have tried to think of one, but i can't. Philip Meyer;478949 Wrote: > > >anyway, i find it kind of amusing you "don't like special cases" but > >have no problem with SBS having a special case category name that > >conflicts with tons of mainstream apps and tagging sources and makes > >such tagged music missing from SBS view. not trying to open that can > of > >worms, but had to mention it. > Thought you would. It's totally different, but I'm not making a > comment again on that. ;) fine by me. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70494 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
