Bugzilla – Bug 17322
Leading and trailing spaces in names should be trimmed and not significant
Last modified: 2011-08-10 22:38:56 UTC
Three different albums tagged with ARTIST='Jack Johnson' ARTIST=' Jack Johnson' ARTIST='Jack Johnson ' produce three different artist/contributors in the library. Looking at the database, the NAMESORT and NAMESEARCH columns are stripped of the leading and trailing spaces, but the NAME column is not. If this behavior is intentional, feel free to close as WORKSFORME.
related: bug 16956 (start around comment 19 or so) bug 10324 (comment 73, so called fud) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86176
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88154
Although I voted for this, I personally don't care much. Perhaps it will reduce support calls. Its a Do What I Mean, Not What I Say type of fix.
I think this change makes sense to improve the user experience with SBS. It could be confusing to see three artists named Jack Johnson and not know why they are not one artist. Or else make trimming leading and trailing blanks from tags a scanning option on the SBS Settings page. Default: yes.
i would add that all we are doing is asking for SBS to act as it ALWAYS did prior to the diacritics fix. this problem, and it certainly is a problem, is an unintended side effect of that fix. there is no compelling reason NOT to fix this issue, and return things to the previous behavior which was sensible and the state of things for years.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #33041 to the slim repo by agrundman == == http://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?view=revision&revision=33041 == Fixed bug 17322, strip leading/trailing spaces from the following: contributors, genres, years, album titles
thx andy!