by chrisjj » Tue May 26, 2009 12:39 pm
> I can agree to the point that the player should not really ever infer anything, that should be relegated to library functionality.
Agreed.
> But, there are other users that do not utilize the library (primarily use my computer node/player) who may disagree.
I would be surprised if a non-user of the library had any use for player inference, but would be interested to hear otherwise.
> In my opinion, the player should simply play and display the file/metadata that it was given. If given no metadata, then it should display the filename only.
I agree 100%
> The problem I see it is, if a track with no metadata tags but is in the library with metadata,
> should the player use the data from the library or should it show only the data in the tags.
> I would say yes, it should display library data if the track is in the database.
I see no problem there at all - "the player should not really ever infer anything" i.e. I would say no, it should not display different data just because MM has found a (possibly out-of-date) filepath match in the library.
FTOAD, play from file should show what's in the file, play from library should show what's in the library. Cross-over leads only to confusion and error.
> I can agree to the point that the player should not really ever infer anything, that should be relegated to library functionality.
Agreed.
> But, there are other users that do not utilize the library (primarily use my computer node/player) who may disagree.
I would be surprised if a non-user of the library had any use for player inference, but would be interested to hear otherwise.
> In my opinion, the player should simply play and display the file/metadata that it was given. If given no metadata, then it should display the filename only.
I agree 100%
> The problem I see it is, if a track with no metadata tags but is in the library with metadata,
> should the player use the data from the library or should it show only the data in the tags.
> I would say yes, it should display library data if the track is in the database.
I see no problem there at all - "the player should not really ever infer anything" i.e. I would say no, it should not display different data just because MM has found a (possibly out-of-date) filepath match in the library.
FTOAD, play from file should show what's in the file, play from library should show what's in the library. Cross-over leads only to confusion and error.