Various Artists GSoC project

[Jeff Mitchell]

Michael Pujos wrote:
>>>> There is only one purely cross-player solution to the Album Artist
>>>> problem in ID3, which is, don't do it.       
>>> In you example above, i'd put John Blaze in a custom tag (TXXX frame)
>>> since there's no standard frame for the "Featuring" credit.
>>>     
>>
>> Which proves my point.  Now you're putting information in custom tags,
>> which are totally fine for one player, but are not cross-player
>> compatible (unless they hack in support for each others' frames).
>>
>>   
> 
> Except if you make the app custom tag aware, but it's quite a bit of
> work and not many players took that route.

And even if you do, you still have to deal with other players' often
undocumented custom tag formats.

>>> No problem putting as much info as you want in the filename, but it's
>>> useful to also have that info in tags for sorting / displaying purposes.
>>> The simplest solution IMHO is to follow the WMP/itunes de-facto
>>> standard (TPE2), or the foobar2000 one
>>> (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Encouraged_Tag_Standards).
>>>
>>> foobar2000 maps Album Artist to the first  defined tag in this list:
>>> "album artist" (custom frame), "artist", "composer", "performer". For
>>> Album Artist, it ignores TPE2 which can serve other purposes (like
>>> it's real signification).
>>>     
>>
>> You should actually read my previous email.
>>
>> --Jeff
>>
>>   
> 
> I thought it did :)
> The point was just that users will be grateful if you follow some
> (potentially half-baked) standard that works rather than thinking you

It's not a standard.

> got it better than everyone else and implementing
> your own speific solution (NIHS syndrome).

Please explain where we

a) think we have it better than everyone else
b) are implementing our own specific solution

--Jeff

P.S. It's NIH Syndrome.  NIHS Syndrome is redundant.

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