Feature request: full support for meta tagging
Created by: alan12345678
NOT a bug!
Is it possible/could you/do you intend to include full support for "meta tags"??
Since using your (wonderful) player I've paid much more attention to both tagging in general as well as the use of meta tags.
The more I use this player and enjoy the natural way of browsing, adding and playing tracks and albums, the more I come to feel that one of the MOST important things it must do is provide more/better control over how the library/artists are displayed and grouped. My comments on grouping and tagging came out of thinking about how one might expect to find music arranged inside a record shop/music store. Take some examples:
I have a lot of albums by "Bob Marley". I also have a couple of albums by "The Wailers". In my normal tagging I like to reflect the same artist credits as given on sites such as Discogs or Wikipedia. Thus within my "Bob Marley" library in terms of folder/directory structure on disc will be albums credited to:
"Bob Marley" "Bob Marley & The Wailers" "The Wailers"
Currently under lollypop the only way to ensure that these albums (or single tracks) appear in the same part of the library is to include the tag "album artist" as identical in each case i.e. Bob Marley. Failing this I have to scroll from "B" down to "W" to find related music. My library list is LONG!!
However, the use of correct meta tags would mean that for each album or track I can use the normal tag "artist" as any of the above values, completely omit the "album artist" tag and then include either the "albumsort" meta tag, or the "albumartistsort" meta tag and use the value "Bob Marley" as a grouping device while still keeping correct values for artist within specific albums.
This would also 'cure' the huge problem that currently exists with compilation albums - of which I have dozens and dozens. For example, I may have a four disc set of country music. Each track will list "artist" as the name of performer on each track, while "album artist" presently says "various artists". At present therefore, I would have to scroll down to "V" and look within the huge library of "various artists" (where, incidentally, the collections may or may not be correctly displayed).
However, this four CD compilation might actually have a name, say "Country Music Hits". Thus I could stick with my present "artist" "album artist" tags, but include a meta tag for "albumsort" e.g. "country music hits" and therefore have an album of "various artists" which I choose to find under "C" and not "V".
Note that one small bug/annoyance at present is that where I have a single track (NOT a complete album) and which track has different values for "artist" and "album artist" (example: Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble; Yo-Yo Ma), this one track show up twice in the artist list - one for each value.
This is a very good player already, but I think that consistent and predictable tag support is essential.