[SlimDevices: Beta] Searching for artists with punctuation

2007-11-26 Thread Phil Meyer
My tags for artist R.E.M. are inconsistent. For some albums, I have REM, elsewhere I have R.E.M. and R. E. M.. I guess freedb is inconsistent. I have decided to stick with REM. A search for REM doesn't find R.E.M.. I tried a standard search for R. to find all other occurances. However, this

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Searching for artists with punctuation

2007-11-26 Thread Phil Meyer
I have decided to stick with REM. Actually, a change of plan - looking back at my original CD's, the band seem to be R.E.M. more often than not, and some of the tracks on compilation disks have got it wrong, so I will change all occurences to R.E.M. (without spaces). Phil

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Searching for artists with punctuation

2007-11-26 Thread CatBus
For what it's worth, I tag my R.E.M. albums with ARTIST=R.E.M. and ARTISTSORT=REM, in case punctuation is relevant to sorting with any of the software I use to listen to or manage my music. This approach may also help with searching. -- CatBus