Philip Meyer;479025 Wrote: > >i agree that "fixing" tags is the best route... but what i am > proposing > >is for a better exp for the unsophisticated user. > > > It's not a better experience. I am suprised, because you are always > saying that SbS shouldn't guess, but that is what you are asking for > here.
when/in what context did i say SBS shouldn't guess? i think it is a better experience to not get two albums displayed where there should be only one. how is it better to get two when only one is the ultimate desired outcome? Philip Meyer;479025 Wrote: > iTunes for example displays a simple grid of data. It will show what it > has read from tags. If you have 50 songs on an album with disk numbers > present and one doesn't have a disk number, it won't assume a disk > number for it. and, ...so? i don't see your point. Philip Meyer;479025 Wrote: > Such logic can get complex. You say if you have 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, then a > song without a disk tag can be assumed to be 4/4, but that is just a > guess. no, thats NOT what i said. you just conflated terms. we were talking about TRACKS in that example, not DISC values. Philip Meyer;479025 Wrote: > There's no logic to go on. What if there were 1/4 and 4/4 with several > files without disk number tags? And what about disk tags without total > disks? as i said earlir in the thread, we are talking about only a very specific case here. > X files = Disc=1/1 and Y files = Disc=<blank> but both in the same > folder and sharing the same album tag name. as aubuti noted, Z files = Disc=1 would be another piece, and i'd bet if you had two groups of files where some had "1/1" and others just had "1" i bet SBS already combines those, as it should. Philip Meyer;479025 Wrote: > As the scanner reads tags, and then works out groupings in a subsequent > scanning phase, this can get complex. maybe, but it already does so, and dos so incorrectly as i demonstrated. i'm just saying it should do it right, and consider one narrow, special case situation. -- 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
