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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:21:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E4D34F.9020903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <717E26F5-008C-4AAB-BA20-79EDDD7D52E3@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

On 31/08/2015 18:40, Stroller wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 30 August 2015, at 11:46 am, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> There are 3 fields that my algorithm looks at...
>>>
>>> Albumperformer= 'Various Artists'
>>> Performer=      'Various Artists'
>>> Tracktitle=     'Johnny Cash / I Walk The Line'
>>
>> … 
>> It does raise the question of what is the point of the Performer field if
>> it's always the same as the Albumperformer.
> 
> I'm sure the above is wrong.
> 
> I don't know where OP got this metadata from, but I'm sure that "Various" is the right Albumperformer, but "Johnny Cash" should be the Performer field, and the Tracktitle should just be "I Walk The Line".
> 
> Of course everyone is free to label their tracks as they like, but I'm pretty sure that's the way I'd do it.

That's also the way musicbrainz does it. most taggers follow
musicbrainz's lead. It also makes total sense to do it your way


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-31 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-26 20:06 [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles? Walter Dnes
2015-08-26 20:16 ` Daniel Frey
2015-08-26 20:38 ` covici
2015-08-26 20:49 ` Heiko Baums
2015-08-26 21:01   ` Marc Joliet
2015-08-27 11:28   ` Joerg Schilling
2015-08-27 23:48     ` wabenbau
2015-08-26 20:53 ` wabenbau
2015-08-26 20:58 ` Marc Joliet
2015-08-26 21:04   ` Emanuele Rusconi
2015-08-26 22:53   ` Walter Dnes
2015-08-27 11:37     ` Joerg Schilling
2015-08-27 19:42       ` Walter Dnes
2015-08-27 21:00         ` Neil Bothwick
2015-08-29  1:09           ` Walter Dnes
2015-08-29  9:38             ` Neil Bothwick
2015-08-30  0:20               ` Walter Dnes
2015-08-30 10:46                 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-08-30 17:39                   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2015-08-31 16:40                   ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2015-08-31 22:21                     ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2015-09-01  3:22                     ` Walter Dnes
2015-08-26 21:04 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-08-27 11:30   ` Joerg Schilling
2015-08-26 21:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2015-08-26 21:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2015-08-26 22:50 ` Alex Corkwell
2015-08-27  3:42   ` Daniel Frey
2015-09-07 23:45   ` covici
2015-09-08  0:49     ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-09-08  2:51       ` covici
2015-09-08  3:17         ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-09-08  4:09       ` covici
2015-09-08  5:02         ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-09-08  7:09           ` covici
2015-09-08  5:59         ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-09-08  6:05           ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-08-27  4:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-27  9:53   ` Neil Bothwick
2015-08-27 14:43     ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-27 17:29       ` Mick
2015-08-27 18:16         ` Alan Grimes
2015-08-28  1:03           ` [gentoo-user] " James
2015-08-27 18:56       ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2015-08-27 19:07         ` Todd Goodman
2015-08-28  5:03         ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-28  8:04           ` Neil Bothwick
2015-08-27 11:24 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-08-28  6:15 ` Justin Findlay
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-27 20:06 Schilling, Jörg

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