Concept of "hashing" stings in Amarok (sih1)

[Daniel Dewald]

On Monday, 11. January 2010 16:32:48 Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
> On 01/11/2010 02:44 PM, Jakob Kummerow wrote:
> >> In fact, we've always over the years gotten emails asking for *more*
> >> specificity, which is why we recently switched the database to be
> >> case-sensitive. People *want* to know when they have both AC-DC and
> >> AC/DC so that they can fix their tags.
> >
> > I concur that fixing your tags is a more robust long-term solution.
> > Especially when fetching covers/lyrics/Wikipedia articles or whatever,
> > it doesn't help at all if Amarok internally knows that "AC/DC" and
> > "acdc" are probably the same band; rather, when requesting stuff from
> > external services, Amarok must provide the exact correct spelling
> > (unless the other side also employs a "sih1"-like algorithm).
> >
> > So, to make sih1 (or similar ideas) really useful, it would need to be
> > established as an internet-wide standard - which is probably about as
> > easy as just establishing correctly spelled tags as a standard ;-)
> >
> > One point where I do see its usefulness is in a (standalone?) tagging
> > application, where such an algorithm can be used to present the user a
> > group of tracks that are *probably* performed by the same artist,
> > giving the user the chance to correct the tags accordingly. But from
> > my POV, it's at least debatable whether it would be a good idea to
> > integrate that directly into Amarok.
> 
> A GUI that provides a workflow to merge/normalize tags would be helpful.
> Such a GUI would automatically detect groups of similar names and present
>  them to the user. The user can add/remove names from it and say to which
>  name all tags shall be changed.
> 
> 	-panzi
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++ for that. I personally use Amarok for tagging my music files even if there 
are other apps that can do things like that faster. I don't want to use 3 apps 
to manage my music. I want to use one. And that's Amarok for me. So a GUI to 
manage you Tags in the music files and combine misspelled Artist/Album names 
would be great.
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