>well, thats cool if it works for you, but i disagree with that >approach... > There's no right or wrong answer, really - it's what works best for the individual. I was just suggesting an alternative approach.
>The album moniker is to note that info, meaning the album source of the >track, not denote how many tracks you have from an "album." (how many >tracks before its no longer an "album" in your view anyway?) > When I browse an artist and select an album to play, I'm not looking for single tracks. Eg. I have a song "Kinobe - Slip Into Something More Comfortable", which has appeared on numerous "Chillout" compilation albums. I could have ripped it from any album - it's a bit irrelevant which one it came from if I didn't want any of the other songs. If it had come out on a CD single, or if I had downloaded it as a single track from some on-line source. Some "Chill Out Ibiza Volume 50" album tag is a bit meaningless to me. Of course if there were lots of songs on "Chill Out Ibiza Volume 50" I would rip the whole album (perhaps ignore one or two songs). If there were only a couple of songs I liked, I'd just rip them as singles. >in any case, i use my music with more than just SBS. winamp, portable >players, etc... the album tag is necessary given that. > It's not mandatory in any app, is it? Works okay for me in Foobar, iTunes, MusicIP, etc. >they aren't expressly MEANT to sort albums, but in fact they DO sort >albums. > No, they don't SORT albums - but I understand what you mean :-). You may have chosen an option in SBS to sort by artist, which will sort by Album Artist and then Artist if no Album Artist is present. It is the option that is chosen that is sorting by whatever has been selected. One could equally argue that the YEAR tag is used for sorting albums too. If you didn't have an album artist tag, and you choose to sort by artist, it would still sort the artist using the artist tag value. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
