Bugzilla – Bug 2697
Allow alternate Orchestra and Ensemble tags for "band"
Last modified: 2009-07-30 14:02:27 UTC
NB - this is one of a series of requests, collectively intended to improve usability for users of Classical music. See attachment for context. In Vorbis; recognise "Orchestra" and "Ensemble" tags as equivalent to "Band". Note that there could be multiple instances of this tag on a single file, all are equally valid. Reason: Vorbis preferred standard is "ENSEMBLE", many users will see "ORCHESTRA" as more intuitive. Optional extra: make this behaviour user selectable (in the same way that Conductor, Composer and Band can optionally be treated as equivalent to Artist for browse/search in current Slimserver). However, there doesn't seem to be a downside to having them equivalent, so this may not be necessary.
Created attachment 1070 [details] Context description for this and other requests
I note that a simple implementation of this for FLAC, at least, is available by adding 'ORCHESTRA' => 'BAND', 'ENSEMBLE' => 'BAND', to the %tagMapping definition near the beginning of FLAC.pm This of course isn't giving anyone any choice, or covering other file types...