Rob Funk
2004-01-08, 09:55
Scott Haug <scott (AT) houseofhaug (DOT) net> wrote:
> Second, I'd like to be able to browse by artist, but only have artists
> show up that cover an entire album. I'd like there to be a special
> entry for "Various" or "Compilations". I _don't_ want artists that
> show up as individual tracks on compilation albums to be in that list.
What about artists that have *both* their own albums *and* tracks on a
compilation? I like all of an artist's tracks to appear under that
artist, rather than under a separate "Various" entry.
> I think a "Browse by Artist/Album" (or
> similar) would be handy, especially for folks whose music collection
> is (almost) entirely from their CD collection.
I agree that album browsing should be linked more closely with artists,
though the compilation problem gets worse in that case rather than better.
I'd like to browse albums on my slimp3 similarly to how I do on my CD
shelf -- by artist, then by album chronologically within an artist, or
just by album title for compilations.
> Another useful addition would be to support the "MCDI" frame in tags,
> which is the "Music CD identifier" frame. I don't know what apps
> actually add these frames when ripping, but if support were added to
> the slimserver, I would try to create a tool for adding them.
I like this idea! This would be a much more reliable way to link different
songs from the same album than the current album title method. (It's
probably too much to hope for to be able to convert from the CDDB ID to
the MCDI.)
One more issue that comes up for me is overlap between regular albums and
compilations. I have lots of songs that appear on both an original album
and a compilation. (Or even when I don't have the original album, I like
to tag the song with the original album name rather than the comp name for
better identification.) I'd love to have some way of having that song
appear under both the comp and the original album without having two
copies of the song. However, this is a limitation of the ID3
album-related tags (including MCDI) that each track can be associated with
only one album.
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> Second, I'd like to be able to browse by artist, but only have artists
> show up that cover an entire album. I'd like there to be a special
> entry for "Various" or "Compilations". I _don't_ want artists that
> show up as individual tracks on compilation albums to be in that list.
What about artists that have *both* their own albums *and* tracks on a
compilation? I like all of an artist's tracks to appear under that
artist, rather than under a separate "Various" entry.
> I think a "Browse by Artist/Album" (or
> similar) would be handy, especially for folks whose music collection
> is (almost) entirely from their CD collection.
I agree that album browsing should be linked more closely with artists,
though the compilation problem gets worse in that case rather than better.
I'd like to browse albums on my slimp3 similarly to how I do on my CD
shelf -- by artist, then by album chronologically within an artist, or
just by album title for compilations.
> Another useful addition would be to support the "MCDI" frame in tags,
> which is the "Music CD identifier" frame. I don't know what apps
> actually add these frames when ripping, but if support were added to
> the slimserver, I would try to create a tool for adding them.
I like this idea! This would be a much more reliable way to link different
songs from the same album than the current album title method. (It's
probably too much to hope for to be able to convert from the CDDB ID to
the MCDI.)
One more issue that comes up for me is overlap between regular albums and
compilations. I have lots of songs that appear on both an original album
and a compilation. (Or even when I don't have the original album, I like
to tag the song with the original album name rather than the comp name for
better identification.) I'd love to have some way of having that song
appear under both the comp and the original album without having two
copies of the song. However, this is a limitation of the ID3
album-related tags (including MCDI) that each track can be associated with
only one album.
--
==============================| "A slice of life isn't the whole cake
Rob Funk <rfunk (AT) funknet (DOT) net> | One tooth will never make a full grin"
http://www.funknet.net/rfunk | -- Chris Mars, "Stuck in Rewind"