Re: Composer tags - semi colon separator vs forward slash
Ok Thanks.
As far as dismissing the advice...didn't really need to be pointed out the obvious....I was maybe under the misapprehension / delusion though that this was reasonably straight forward.
Lets look at this from the consumer perspective.
I bought this program years ago and have paid for several updates over the years,
It states that you get perfect rips and that you get metadata from several sources. And indeed it does.
And I ripped basically the same way using a default naming scheme found on this site.
What is annoying is from my point of view is that, as you pointed out, all player apps seem to go there own way with respect to how they handle some of this metadata.
It even appears that mp3tag has a slightly different take on how all this works. Not real sure if anyone has it standardized.
Its almost like going back to propriety solutions situation instead of a universal solution.
Most people want to be able to just get an accurate rip..be able to play it on a player and basically have a display of things like
artist, album, track name, track number, duration, composer, album cover art . Maybe genre and a few other things are nice but essentially the main ones are of interest.
Maybe publish what player apps work with a dbpoweramp rip that can to display / extract these common fields.
But that is probably thinking too idealistically.
It seems almost that you need to have indepth knowledge of exactly how the players will work before you rip..and then rip in a form the player is expecting maybe.
or keep buying apps till you fluke one that does integrate with the metadata from your rip like I have been doing..
So my sons advice to me...why bother going to all this trouble..just do Deezer or Spotify or Tidal or whatever and let someone else worry about it.
But I will play with the files again it and follow your instructions... and then if its all to difficult... guess its back to the backup copy.
Thanks again and I have appreciated the advice and help even though I have been unable to make progress so far.
Pls take my comments as constructive criticism.
Ok Thanks.
As far as dismissing the advice...didn't really need to be pointed out the obvious....I was maybe under the misapprehension / delusion though that this was reasonably straight forward.
Lets look at this from the consumer perspective.
I bought this program years ago and have paid for several updates over the years,
It states that you get perfect rips and that you get metadata from several sources. And indeed it does.
And I ripped basically the same way using a default naming scheme found on this site.
What is annoying is from my point of view is that, as you pointed out, all player apps seem to go there own way with respect to how they handle some of this metadata.
It even appears that mp3tag has a slightly different take on how all this works. Not real sure if anyone has it standardized.
Its almost like going back to propriety solutions situation instead of a universal solution.
Most people want to be able to just get an accurate rip..be able to play it on a player and basically have a display of things like
artist, album, track name, track number, duration, composer, album cover art . Maybe genre and a few other things are nice but essentially the main ones are of interest.
Maybe publish what player apps work with a dbpoweramp rip that can to display / extract these common fields.
But that is probably thinking too idealistically.
It seems almost that you need to have indepth knowledge of exactly how the players will work before you rip..and then rip in a form the player is expecting maybe.
or keep buying apps till you fluke one that does integrate with the metadata from your rip like I have been doing..
So my sons advice to me...why bother going to all this trouble..just do Deezer or Spotify or Tidal or whatever and let someone else worry about it.
But I will play with the files again it and follow your instructions... and then if its all to difficult... guess its back to the backup copy.
Thanks again and I have appreciated the advice and help even though I have been unable to make progress so far.
Pls take my comments as constructive criticism.
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