[Feedback] Request: A way to locally sort artists under same name

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Saturday 23 June 2007, Andrew Ash wrote:
> It's not a "pirate function".  If you share your legally obtained
> music with others over a home network in a media server type setup

This is technically illegal.

> then you might want to keep other people on the network from editing
> the files and messing up the tags.  Or, if you have a read-only disc
> burned and mounted because your hard drive is full, you may want to be
> able to change an incorrect tag that was mistakenly left on the disc.

Or you could reburn a proper CD later and never have to worry about it again, 
even if you lose your database.

> Though this can be used to aide illegal downloading, sure, it also has
> several legit use cases.

Haven't figured one out yet.

> And don't forget that not all music available via BitTorrent is
> inherently illegal.  Creative Commons licensed music and other types
> may also be available via P2P filesharing.

Usually since those will originate from a single source (the author's upload, 
which is then copied around) instead of thousands of people ripping their own 
copies of discs and tagging differently, this is likely not a problem for 
that kind of music.

> If Amarok devs believe it to be a valid function,

We don't.

> then it will be added in time.

It won't.

> If not, it won't be unless someone really wants it.

But you won't get it anyways.

--Jeff