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2008-08-26
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@ Tallahassee, FL
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2008-08-26
, 21:14
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@ Recife, Brazil
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2008-08-26
, 22:04
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2008-08-26
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good luck.
Most mp3 players (and mp3 playing software) expects that all songs are part of an "album", and really don't deal very well with those that aren't, usually forcing you to 'pretend' they're part of an album. That's why I have "1 album" on my mp3 player called "Pop Singles" with 15,824 (so far) tracks. It's unwieldy, to say the least.
The Canola guys are no different than the rest, though, and last time I brought this issue up, they weren't the least bit interested in doing anything about it.
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2008-08-27
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To be perfectly honest, that's a crap answer and you know it. You're already using a non-standard tag, "Album Artist", to display the artist name in all cases. Most ID3 taggers use the "Artist" tag and autocopy the data there to the other field if it's blank. In any event, it seems to me that by failing to offer the end user ANY sort of control over this (or half-a-dozen OTHER items I could easily rattle off) through a simple Preferences dialogue, you're simply assuming that the users are idiots and incapable of using software properly.
Been taking lessons from Steve Jobs?
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2008-08-27
, 03:07
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@ Chicago-ish
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2008-08-27
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2008-08-27
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2008-08-27
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This seems to be a good place to post a small annoyance I have...
After I merge an album in Canola, the artist will always show up as Compilation. I'd like to see Canola use the merging for sorting, and the actual tags for the "Now Playing" display. This is somewhat like what the OP was talking about, but it doesn't reqquire Canola to read any more tags than it already does.
Canola should be using the "Album Artist" tag to sort and defaulting to the "Artist" tag to display in such cases... in my humble opinion, anyway.
Wouldn't that be easy enough to implement and satisfy most everyone?
Dissenting opinions?