Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread Lars Aronsson
Brian Gurtler wrote: Steve Wyles wrote: They'll be unique if you take the track numbers into account. no. they won't be unique. they will all be tagged with the same album title. that's not unique and therefore (I'd guess depending on what This is not a problem in the album display (URL

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread Thomas Tholén
Citerar Brian Gurtler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I might be out of line here, because I don't really know the tag system, but it seems like you're talking about different things. You're talking exclusively about album title and track title tags, while he's talking about all the tags (wherein i suppose

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Well, usually they don't. Take a look at the screenshot he sent a couple mails earlier, that's a pretty usual situation. On 5/4/06, Thomas Tholén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Citerar Brian Gurtler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I might be out of line here, because I don't really know the tag system, but it

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread Nikki
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:28:32PM -0400, Brian Gurtler wrote: can we add (single) to singles that have the same title as albums? would anyone be opposed to that? Very opposed. The same problem occurs for singles titled the same, different versions of albums, different country releases of

RE: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread Stefan Kestenholz
Please, that was all very obvious to me that it was a mis-formulation of the request on his part. Of course, if we added (single) to the ReleaseTitle field in the db, it would not require additional development. But I'm certain that the idea was to have a preference in picard which allows to

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread Nikki
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:34:25AM +0200, Stefan Kestenholz wrote: Please, that was all very obvious to me that it was a mis-formulation of the request on his part. Well, he did post it to mb-style, which, last I checked, was concerned with how to enter data into the database. He also never

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread derGraph
Brian Gurtler wrote: my music player does NOT sort by directory. [...] is there one for Linux that does that you {or anyone} could recommend? amaroK allows you to filter by parts of the directory, i.e. you could set the collection browser filter for -directory:single. But that's it. Not a

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread Nikki
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:59:33AM +0200, Stefan Kestenholz wrote: the only conclusion *I* come to with those two points is that he wants to edit the data in the database. Yes, if you assume per default that people (maybe only certain people?) want to _worse_ the quality of MusicBrainz,

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread Brian Gurtler
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Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Chris Bransden
nah cos it's only relevant if you own both. same reason we don't append (vinyl) or (japanese release) to titles, even though there's plenty of reasons why you would want to own both. i think it's just one of those things you have to do at your end :) maybe the tagger could be made smart enough

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Cristov Russell
] albums and single with the same title Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 22:33:30 +0100 nah cos it's only relevant if you own both. same reason we don't append (vinyl) or (japanese release) to titles, even though there's plenty of reasons why you would want to own both. i think it's just one of those things you

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread PRAEst76
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 22:33, Chris Bransden wrote: nah cos it's only relevant if you own both. same reason we don't append (vinyl) or (japanese release) to titles, even though there's plenty of reasons why you would want to own both. i think it's just one of those things you have to do at

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Steve Wyles
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: i think we need a way to differentiate singles form albums with the same name. For example Morphine has an album titled Cure for Pain they also have a single Cure for Pain as well. I have both ripped and tagged but they end up in the same folder. Also if

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
Steve Wyles wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: i think we need a way to differentiate singles form albums with the same name. For example Morphine has an album titled Cure for Pain they also have a single Cure for Pain as well. I have both ripped and tagged but they end up in

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Steve Wyles
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: Steve Wyles wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: i think we need a way to differentiate singles form albums with the same name. For example Morphine has an album titled Cure for Pain they also have a single Cure for Pain as well. I have

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
Steve Wyles wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: Steve Wyles wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: i think we need a way to differentiate singles form albums with the same name. For example Morphine has an album titled Cure for Pain they also have a single Cure for

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Steve Wyles
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: Steve Wyles wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: Steve Wyles wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: i think we need a way to differentiate singles form albums with the same name. For example Morphine has an album titled Cure for

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
Steve Wyles wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: Steve Wyles wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: Steve Wyles wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: i think we need a way to differentiate singles form albums with the same name. For example Morphine has