Conflicting album artist values

[simoncn]

(23-06-2012 23:32)bbrip Wrote:  most tagging needs to be redone anyway - at least for classical music. And there are some of the more forward-thinking and adventurous labels already tagging composers and artists in the Lastname / Firstname manner. Hyperion being one (but not the only one..)

That's interesting. It would be great if all the record companies and music databases could use a consistent standard for tagging. This would make life much easier for users as well as for server developers.

Quote:And on those "multi-disc" albums - I never quite got that. Putting an album on mutiple discs is simply a necessity resp. limiting factor of that last-century music storage medium called "CD". It would never cross my mind to tag a Wagner opera according to the way it was squeezed across 4 CDs (altough it only has three acts....). Its just artificial. So I simply tag from track 1 to 65 - or whatever number of tracks that opera might have. Who cares about "discs" when we talk online storage ?

Sorry - I guess I'm getting carried away....

I'm with you on this, and my initial support for this in MinimServer was to combine all the discs and renumber the tracks. For example, for an album with DISCNUMBER=1 / TRACKNUMBER=1...10 and DISCNUMBER=2 / TRACKNUMBER=1...4, MinimServer would merge this into a single album with TRACKNUMBER=1...14. I was surprised at how many people didn't want this, but wanted to see "discs" when browsing their collection. So now MinimServer supports both approaches, and I hope everyone is happy!