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Plasma Active Three released

Plasma Active Three released

Posted Oct 18, 2012 8:14 UTC (Thu) by smcv (subscriber, #53363)
In reply to: Plasma Active Three released by rsidd
Parent article: Plasma Active Three released

Relying on semantic tagging can work, but only if the software interpreting the semantic tags has the same interpretation you do.

One of my pet hates in MeeGo/Maemo Harmattan is that the media player copes poorly with "Various Artists" compilations. I can either navigate by album (which sorts alphabetically by album, so e.g. the Nine Inch Nails albums aren't grouped together) or by artist, which really means artist/album (treating a 10-track compilation as if it was 10 1-track albums by different artists).

What makes that particularly annoying is that the directory hierarchy on the actual filesystem follows the Musicbrainz Picard defaults - "AlbumArtist/Album/01. Artist - Track.ogg" - so if I was able to navigate according to the filesystem, all the compilations would be under "Various Artists" where I expect to find them.

I'm not sure whether the bug here is "media player doesn't let me navigate the filesystem" or "media player doesn't understand ALBUMARTIST tags" or both...


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