From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B331384C1 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B242A142B2; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com (mail-wi0-f179.google.com [209.85.212.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3018214257 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wicmc4 with SMTP id mc4so13930460wic.0 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:21:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JlZxfTgnEOVcJOcZgVLT7XP0hALvVXQjO6xI3my33Gk=; b=IaR2MaRUPOeRzyu+umcYXRdLgiP5/RFPtFJ7dXDSszgOvS0nH0QreIMgEFdcrCD5Mj pbyM7kywCAJnNtWM1u696o/ardwvc/f6XbEHF6wk79O7bPWZwCzT+q7bcTVCrCPBG8/i j5coVHIEOqpIP0zIcs7FJfjH+BpGShiXl8KPi6+wVN/gspaLoEew6L+jgS1u760VG+CW dGGAWZ4GsAAbcouZh+E1Uwxfui9FnRa2/ivfayvnyddYUC/LpziODfQnIrGds7+oKDfA aMJVd/HjaLVEhqb/ByF0pGoWJVjR4Mdj7CIzS9tUk1afeI9Mr/Njh1ruPKypOOjD4Zmx ubIQ== X-Received: by 10.194.93.166 with SMTP id cv6mr30623462wjb.63.1441059675122; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-150-165.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.150.165]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id gv1sm732699wib.15.2015.08.31.15.21.13 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:21:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20150826200610.GA22849@waltdnes.org> <20150826225803.08cffa46@thetick> <20150826225317.GA23022@waltdnes.org> <55def686.chdf8A+Ii/EUSrDs%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20150827194246.GA26102@waltdnes.org> <20150827220054.7f1f938a@digimed.co.uk> <20150829010931.GA3724@waltdnes.org> <20150829103844.6c1af9c5@digimed.co.uk> <20150830002044.GA8679@waltdnes.org> <20150830114635.74cc9e18@digimed.co.uk> <717E26F5-008C-4AAB-BA20-79EDDD7D52E3@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <55E4D34F.9020903@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:21:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <717E26F5-008C-4AAB-BA20-79EDDD7D52E3@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 22e32859-cfa5-494a-a361-38da772d07e2 X-Archives-Hash: 6a1ff1e4b46b4602707536fad496ba64 On 31/08/2015 18:40, Stroller wrote: > > On Sun, 30 August 2015, at 11:46 am, Neil Bothwick 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