Sorry. Just woke up. Try running foobar* with masstagger.
On Jun 13, 2011 12:15 PM, "David Wales" <
yay101 gmail com> wrote:
> Try running banshee with masstagger under wine. Banshee is great, but
> nothing can replace the abilitys of its tagging.
> On Jun 13, 2011 6:13 AM, "A. James Lewis" <
james fsck co uk> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 15:55 +0200, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
>>> If you right click your track and choose "Edit Track Information",
>>> then you can check the "Compilation Album Artist" box and fill out the
>>> name of the compilation artist (e.g. Various Artists). I hope this
>>> helps. Tommy
>>>
>> Yes, I can see that you can do that... my question is why is it felt
>> that when Banshee is really targeted at replacing Rhythmbox, why it does
>> not read the tags written by that player correctly?
>>
>> I have a slight correction of my previous comment to make, since I did
>> find the option in preferences to allow it to write the changes back to
>> the tags in the file, and although I would have liked if it was more
>> obvious in the "Edit Track Information" dialog... I can see that this is
>> a learning curve for the application.
>>
>> That said, I now have some 500 albums to update... I would not embark on
>> this task unless the work was saved back to the files, but at the same
>> time, this will involve literally weeks of my upload bandwidth to push
>> these changes back to the cloud storage, and so... having looked very
>> closely at the tags involved previously, while I agree that Banshee is
>> more correct in what it writes than Rhythmbox... it does seem
>> unreasonable not to recognise what has been written by rhythmbox, when
>> tags written by Windows Media Centre and iTunes are even more vague, and
>> are handled explicitly.
>>
>> James.
>>
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:35 PM, A. James Lewis <
james fsck co uk> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > OK, I have to say that Banshee is a very great deal more modern,
> pretty,
>>> > functional... any number of things I could list, than Rhythmbox, but
> why
>>> > am I coming back to this 2 years later....
>>> >
>>> > I tried to explain this problem at length, possibly to the point where
>>> > people stopped even listening previously, this time... just a
>>> > screenshot.
>>> >
>>> >
http://www.fsck.co.uk/Bugs/Banshee-WTF.png>>> >
>>> > I don't know what the problem is, or what the solution is... but, this
>>> > is not good default behaviour.
>>> >
>>> > James
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:26 +0100, James Lewis wrote:
>>> >> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 04:57 -0700, Keith Curtis wrote:
>>> >> > It worries me that this e-mail list is filled only with the sort of
>>> >> > people who install tagging software. Maybe the only people who use
>>> >> > Banshee are those who have done this because all of those who
> haven't
>>> >> > re-tagged got frustrated with Banshee and quit using it. And so it
>>> >> > creates a problem of groupthink.
>>> >> >
>>> >> I'm still listening... but I abandoned Banshee for this exact reason,
> I
>>> >> received a response which I found quite abrasive after pointing out
> that
>>> >> it would be hard to migrate users from Rhythmbox if Banshee was not
> able
>>> >> to correctly index files tagged with that player.
>>> >>
>>> >> Windows Media Player, and iTunes tags things in a certain way, which
> is
>>> >> also strictly "incorrect"... as does Rhythmbox, but if Banshee doesn't
>>> >> accept that there are millions of MP3's out there tagged like this, it
>>> >> will never get the success it deserves, because people will run it
> once,
>>> >> see it make a hash of indexing their library, and drop it again.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> > For all those who have done this, they don't care what the behavior
> is
>>> >> > so I don't even know why they are arguing with me.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > To be honest, this change is pretty easy. A better question is
> whether
>>> >> > Banshee can smartly handle albums with multiple CDs.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > -Keith
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
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