Re: [Muine] My own little rant

[iain <iain prettypeople org>]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 11:03 +0200, Jorn Baayen wrote:

> - The album key is "dirname:album name" because of the following
> reasons: (I should add a comment in the code ..)
> We cannot do artist/performer matching, because it is very common for
> albums to be made by different artists. Random example, the Sigur
> Rós/Radiohead split. 

So my proposal comes up as
"sigur-ros radiohead ba ba"
which I don't see a problem with?
At least none better than
"home/iain/Media/Music/Sigur-ros+radiohead/ba-ba ba ba" which would be
what it the current way.

Plus, as I pointed out using the pathname breaks very very subtly.
As an example take a song from Eric Clapton's Unplugged album, a track
from Alice in Chains' Unplugged album, and a track from Neil Young's
Unplugged album, and put them in the same directory. (The albums are all
officially called "Unplugged")

Result - 1 album called Unplugged with 3 tracks.

> Using "Various Artists" as artist tag is whacky.
> But, we cannot match only by album name either: a user may very well
> have multiple albums with the title "Greatest Hits". We don't want to
> incorrectly group all these together.

Correct, but at the moment, if they're all in the same directory, then
we do.

> - The fuzzy album grouping: I'm no big fan. There are a few issues
> coming up with it: What is the right album title we use for display?
> etc. But those are relatively minor. ToLowering the string we can do,
> but stripping non-alphanumeric chars is not right I think. Again, first
> example that comes to my head: Sigur Rós' "()" album.

Damn, I even have that album. But it still wouldn't break if a better
system than dirname + album name was used.

> - I really think the real solution to these kind of problems lies with
> correctly tagged files, however not as Viet Yen suggests spending days
> in easytag as installed by the sysadmin ;) What I'd like to see at some
> point is a decent tagger with musicbrainz and amazon integration, which
> should allow it to automatically and correctly tag most mp3s flawlessly.
> It surely won't be able to fix all, but the few remaining should be
> doable by hand- or just ignored.

I don't see the difference in your two positions, or does Easytag not do
anything automatically?

iain