I noticed this when using the Smart Mix plugin, but it isn't specific to that plugin.
There are a few podcasts available on iTunes which are effectively just music files - they aren't shows or anything like that.
A few examples:
dj lobsterdust (mashups) - http://feeds.feedburner.com/djlobsterdust
The FuMP (comedy music) - http://feeds.feedburner.com/thefump/all
KCRW's Today's Top Tune - http://feeds.kcrw.com/kcrw/tu
KEXP Song of the Day - http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/songoftheday
KUT.org - http://kut.org/category/music/song-of-the-day/feed
MP3 of the Day (from Spinner) - http://www.spinner.com/itunes-mp3-of-the-day.xml
New Free Music (from triple j) - http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/listen/free_mp3s.xml
The Sideshow (comedy music) - http://www.thefump.com/side_cast.php
Song of the Day (MPR) - http://www.thecurrent.org/collection...of-the-day/rss
Stereogum - http://feeds.feedburner.com/stereogum/cBYa
The problem is - some of these come through with less than ideal MP3 tags, which causes them to among other things, not always be picked up by Smart Mix.
Some examples:
From KEXP Song of the Day, tags look like:
Title: Other Lives - Take Us Alive
Artist: Other Lives
Album: KEXP Song of the Day
Notice that the song title is always 'Artist - SongTitle'. It would be nice if that weren't the case, but that's what they do.
KUT.org is worse:
Title: Billy Bragg: Handyman Blues
Artist: KUT 90.5 FM and KUT.org
Album: KUT.org
blech...
KCRW does:
Title: Patha Du Prince: Photon
Artist: Podcast:Music
Album: KCRW's Today's Top Tune
again, blech.
and so on.
Now, instead of editing all of the tags, which seems like a hassle (probably some sort of Perl script to automate it), what if somewhere in the squeezeserver software or in the plugins like Smart Mix when matching songs, there was some sort of 'post-processing' stage over the tags so that the underlying MP3s could keep their ugly tags and wouldn't need modification, but when being read in, the software would recognize the 'Album' or something special, and then break apart the fields and make them act normally.
Audiogalaxy (before it shut down) did something like this - it would present all of the above songs 'properly' with the right album and song title. Not sure how it did it - whether it had specific rules or not - but it worked well.
Any thoughts on how this might work in Squeezebox land?
There are a few podcasts available on iTunes which are effectively just music files - they aren't shows or anything like that.
A few examples:
dj lobsterdust (mashups) - http://feeds.feedburner.com/djlobsterdust
The FuMP (comedy music) - http://feeds.feedburner.com/thefump/all
KCRW's Today's Top Tune - http://feeds.kcrw.com/kcrw/tu
KEXP Song of the Day - http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/songoftheday
KUT.org - http://kut.org/category/music/song-of-the-day/feed
MP3 of the Day (from Spinner) - http://www.spinner.com/itunes-mp3-of-the-day.xml
New Free Music (from triple j) - http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/listen/free_mp3s.xml
The Sideshow (comedy music) - http://www.thefump.com/side_cast.php
Song of the Day (MPR) - http://www.thecurrent.org/collection...of-the-day/rss
Stereogum - http://feeds.feedburner.com/stereogum/cBYa
The problem is - some of these come through with less than ideal MP3 tags, which causes them to among other things, not always be picked up by Smart Mix.
Some examples:
From KEXP Song of the Day, tags look like:
Title: Other Lives - Take Us Alive
Artist: Other Lives
Album: KEXP Song of the Day
Notice that the song title is always 'Artist - SongTitle'. It would be nice if that weren't the case, but that's what they do.
KUT.org is worse:
Title: Billy Bragg: Handyman Blues
Artist: KUT 90.5 FM and KUT.org
Album: KUT.org
blech...
KCRW does:
Title: Patha Du Prince: Photon
Artist: Podcast:Music
Album: KCRW's Today's Top Tune
again, blech.
and so on.
Now, instead of editing all of the tags, which seems like a hassle (probably some sort of Perl script to automate it), what if somewhere in the squeezeserver software or in the plugins like Smart Mix when matching songs, there was some sort of 'post-processing' stage over the tags so that the underlying MP3s could keep their ugly tags and wouldn't need modification, but when being read in, the software would recognize the 'Album' or something special, and then break apart the fields and make them act normally.
Audiogalaxy (before it shut down) did something like this - it would present all of the above songs 'properly' with the right album and song title. Not sure how it did it - whether it had specific rules or not - but it worked well.
Any thoughts on how this might work in Squeezebox land?