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queenmetroid:
--- Quote from: Mele on July 09, 2009, 07:59:58 PM ---I get the tagging issues too. For artists it's because the Zune reads and displays the Album Artist tag rather than simply the Artist tag. The only way to solve this is to remove anything from the Album Artist section or change the Album Artist to match the Artist. I find this extremely inconvenient and cumbersome.
I absolutely love the Zune design and hardware, but I can't stand the small quirks or forced software usage either.
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MP3tag makes that easy enough to change, so it never bothered me, but yeah, the Zune software could be slimmed down a bit resource-wise.
Mele:
--- Quote from: queenmetroid on July 09, 2009, 08:03:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mele on July 09, 2009, 07:59:58 PM ---I get the tagging issues too. For artists it's because the Zune reads and displays the Album Artist tag rather than simply the Artist tag. The only way to solve this is to remove anything from the Album Artist section or change the Album Artist to match the Artist. I find this extremely inconvenient and cumbersome.
I absolutely love the Zune design and hardware, but I can't stand the small quirks or forced software usage either.
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MP3tag makes that easy enough to change, so it never bothered me, but yeah, the Zune software could be slimmed down a bit resource-wise.
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I use TagScanner, which also makes it easy to change tag info. The ease of changing the info isn't really the issue though; you shouldn't have to do it at all. Not to mention the fact that when you're working with ~150 gigs of music it becomes exceedingly labor intensive.
Also, sometimes I'll add something to the Zune software not knowing it has an Album Artist tag, so I'll then have to remove it, update the tag and add it again. This is highly inconvenient and it makes no sense that Microsoft decided they wouldn't base the Artist listed off of the Artist tag.
Nanonanol:
I was using Easytag, which apparently doesn't show the AlbumArtist, so I switched to Mp3Tag and got everything working. Nevertheless I'm going to have to agree with Mele - the ordering should just be based on Artist/Track number. Although, it's not like the AlbumArtist tag is redundant or anything ... who wouldn't want to have to copy the Artist over to the AlbumArtist field?
queenmetroid:
Honestly, I have no idea why it's different. My only theory is that is has something to do with the Zune Social in tracking plays of certain albums, and also lets you use a different artist for each song if necessary.
Nanonanol:
Hmmm ... to me it seems more like Microsoft is actively trying to make their products shitty. First they give you this glimpse of hope, and then they just ram a shit covered product down your open mouth. Take Vista for example ... they were working on it for years, and right before its release the nice new interface, ReadyBoost, and other shit like that was all hyped over. Then it turned out that Vista was a slow OS, that required ridiculous hardware specs to be able to run well, and included a bunch of useless features (not to mention hardware compatibility issues).
And of course something similar happened with the Zune ... a new mp3 player with plenty of storage, competitively priced, FM tuner, wireless, larger screen than the Ipod. And then Microsoft somehow managed to fuck up every feature of the Zune that would have made it better than the Ipod (i.e. crippling the wireless, shitty format support, awful software). Honestly, I bet if Microsoft had put a teenager in charge of deciding the features of the Zune, we would have a device that could browse the web, play music, run a torrent client, all while you're running an SNES emulator on it. Ok, well maybe that is what I'd have the Zune do, but still Microsoft fuck up with the Zune on so many different levels, and to my dismay, they haven't improved any of those glaring faults, nor has the Linux community been able to hack the device....
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