2009-10-26, 17:10
If I am incorrect in any of my observations I apologize. The current schema for the Music Library seems be such that only the Genre tag in the media files gets populated to the Genre node at scan time. When scraping artist and album information, most of the scrapers return a lot of additional text/keyword tags that could be useful, but these tags are completely inaccessible from a browsing perspective, and don't appear to cross-connect to any other nodes. In short, there's a bunch of info there, but no way to use it.
I believe it should at least be a GUI option to apply the scraped tag information globally to all tracks and albums associated with an artist. Since the Genre node already exists, it shouldn't be too horrible to patch the functionality into that node first and work out the kinks. Then if things go well, it could be possible to also add similar global nodes for other stuff like "Moods", "Styles", and "Themes".
From the end user perspective this would make XBMC much cooler because you could actually do stuff like "show me all the sad songs I have in my Library", which is a very powerful and intuitive way to look at your music.
I believe it should at least be a GUI option to apply the scraped tag information globally to all tracks and albums associated with an artist. Since the Genre node already exists, it shouldn't be too horrible to patch the functionality into that node first and work out the kinks. Then if things go well, it could be possible to also add similar global nodes for other stuff like "Moods", "Styles", and "Themes".
From the end user perspective this would make XBMC much cooler because you could actually do stuff like "show me all the sad songs I have in my Library", which is a very powerful and intuitive way to look at your music.
