MediaMonkey always uses the the data it has from a certain track (e.g. file's tags and library contents) and this is obviously the most correct way.
But you are right, album art should be a managed at album art level, and maybe some other things too.
However, I'm not convinced about the year and genre properties of an album.
Yes, the year property seems to be used as "album release year" by most people, but who says that's the right thing? Isn't there a "album release year" ID3v2 frame to use instead?
I actually don't really care when an album is released because that's irrelevant. If it is relevant, it'll be included in the album name (like "Donna's Top 2006").
E.g. I want the year field from an old ABBA track to contain the creation year of that track, and not the year that the album is released (like a "Best Of" album, that is released in 2005..., that doesn't change anything to the original music on the cd, so the year should be the original year).
And what would be the purpose of the "Year" node then?
I want to say, let's listen to some tracks made last year, and I don't want to hear ABBA music in between because that's *not* music from last year (even if the "Best Of" album was released in that year).
Also, I want the genre for each track to be separate. Many many many albums exist with most tracks of a certain genre and then some tracks of another genre. This should remain that way.
BTW: If you want the genres for a complete album to be the same (so you *don't* have a detailed info for your tracks), but you want support for styles, genres, subgenres, ... (detailed) that's kind of contradictive isn't it?
If this is implemented in MediaMonkey (what would be a good thing of course), I would want it to be optional (as you already said). People want to be able to choose what they want, to be free in their choices. MediaMonkey has always been very good with this.
Also please understand that first all ID3v2 frames would have to be supported, so we can really tag our tracks in the way that it's supposed to be. (e.g. album release year in that particular frame).
More important imho is that the "multiple/splitted Various Artists album listing" problem would be fixed. This problem still appears, you know.
I mean, an album with tracks with different artists, but all with the same album artist "Various Artists". It still sometimes happens that the album artist changes to the artist value, and so "splits" the album into separate albums. (And we have to use Maintain Library of the "files to edit > multi-artist albums" tree node to fix it. It shouldn't be damaged in the first place.)
Hopefully the dev's read this ...
Anyway, please, nobody feel offended by this "speaking frankly". That's just some rather annoying characteristic of myself
. Always trying to convince people to what I think is best ...
So I propose to wait first for the full ID3v2 implementation. What you are asking can be done manually quite easily, so it probably isn't a top priority.
Cheers
Steegy
MediaMonkey always uses the the data it has from a certain track (e.g. file's tags and library contents) and this is obviously the most correct way.
But you are right, album art should be a managed at album art level, and maybe some other things too.
However, I'm not convinced about the year and genre properties of an album.
Yes, the year property seems to be used as "album release year" by most people, but who says that's the right thing? Isn't there a "album release year" ID3v2 frame to use instead?
I actually don't really care when an album is released because that's irrelevant. If it is relevant, it'll be included in the album name (like "Donna's Top 2006").
E.g. I want the year field from an old ABBA track to contain the creation year of that track, and not the year that the album is released (like a "Best Of" album, that is released in 2005..., that doesn't change anything to the original music on the cd, so the year should be the original year).
And what would be the purpose of the "Year" node then?
I want to say, let's listen to some tracks made last year, and I don't want to hear ABBA music in between because that's *not* music from last year (even if the "Best Of" album was released in that year).
Also, I want the genre for each track to be separate. Many many many albums exist with most tracks of a certain genre and then some tracks of another genre. This should remain that way.
BTW: If you want the genres for a complete album to be the same (so you *don't* have a detailed info for your tracks), but you want support for styles, genres, subgenres, ... (detailed) that's kind of contradictive isn't it?
If this is implemented in MediaMonkey (what would be a good thing of course), I would want it to be optional (as you already said). People want to be able to choose what they want, to be free in their choices. MediaMonkey has always been very good with this.
Also please understand that first all ID3v2 frames would have to be supported, so we can really tag our tracks in the way that it's supposed to be. (e.g. album release year in that particular frame).
More important imho is that the "multiple/splitted Various Artists album listing" problem would be fixed. This problem still appears, you know.
I mean, an album with tracks with different artists, but all with the same album artist "Various Artists". It still sometimes happens that the album artist changes to the artist value, and so "splits" the album into separate albums. (And we have to use Maintain Library of the "files to edit > multi-artist albums" tree node to fix it. It shouldn't be damaged in the first place.)
Hopefully the dev's read this ... :wink:
Anyway, please, nobody feel offended by this "speaking frankly". That's just some rather annoying characteristic of myself :-?. Always trying to convince people to what I think is best ...
So I propose to wait first for the full ID3v2 implementation. What you are asking can be done manually quite easily, so it probably isn't a top priority.
Cheers
Steegy