mandatory? i didn't say that, but i do say necessary. in winamp for example, when you browse by artwork, it puts the album name under the art. if the tag is void, you just get blank space under the art. also, not having tags can mess up album counts and stats like that. i have found that when you don't have an artist, album, or title tag, at bare minimum, you can easily run into an apps/devices "quirks" for handling, or not handling, those cases gracefully.
as to sorting... almost everything i have used will order things in AA order if you want it to. WMP gets ugly fast without AA tags, and winamp works best with them too. one advantage those apps have over SBS, a longtime beef with me, is that i can easily switch, on the fly, between browsing AA, or just Artists. in SBS, that requires a full rescan, which is dopey ridiculous nonsense. i should be able to simply click which way i want it, not be locked into the choice via a previous scan. (it doesn't even make sense for SBS to do this anyway, b/c to change the behavior, i have to "lie" to SBS and say my AA tag is not my AA tag. to put that another way, thats the only way i can get an all TPE1 list, as opposed to TPE2 list. SBS should do like other apps, and allow you to choose how you want to browse, in the webui window, so in albums one choice would be "Artist, Year, Album" while a second choice would be "AlbumArtist, Year, Album") -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbrec & ipeng (parents' home) - sbs 7.5.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 45k+ mp3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82995 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
