|  | | ReplayGain
Aug 25 2014 on content Cantata |
Hi, I don't know how ReplayGain is supposed to work, but it doesn't work with my collection.
I have FLAC files, and they have ReplayGain tags created by metaflac.
At the preferences - Playback - ReplayGain is set to Album, yet I can hear great differences between files of different albums in playback volume, where the AlbumGain (and/or TrackGain) value (i.e. the loudness of the files) differ.
This is for openSuse 13.1, Cantata 1.4.0.
ReplayGain didn't work for earlier versions of Cantata on openSuse, either.
Should I create the ReplayGain values by Cantata instead of metaflac? Or should Cantata read the ReplayGain tags of files directly? |
| | | Feature request - Album Artist
Aug 25 2014 on content Flacon |
Hi, would it be possible to set the Album Artist tag in addition to the Artist tag? It would be very useful at times. |
| | | Re: Song information
Jun 15 2014 on content Cantata |
I have mixed feelings.
1. It's great that Artist is shown when it's other than the Album Artist. But for me - using mostly Classical music - it would be better to have "Artist - Title" order.
Could this be made configurable? "Title - Artist" as default, but "Artist - Title" for those who choose this option?
2. Showing all tags is working. It could be even better if you could open the file in an external tag-editor (which you can define at Preferences), so one could even change them.
3. Information. This does not work for me. Which tag - or what kind of information - is this supposed to show?
4. What I don't like:
The title of Cantata shows too much information, Title by Artist on Album. For me "Artist - Title" would be sufficient. Moreover, Cantata translates "by" and "on" on my system language when playing mp3 files, but they remain "by" and "on" when playing Flac, or m4a (AAC) files. |
| | | Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sorting
Jun 10 2014 on content Cantata |
May I ask you why you've changed this?
It may be that the new arrangement is better for Pop music, but for Classical music artist - title arrangement is better (when the Artist is not the performer but the composer.) |
| | | Re: Re: Re: Re: Song information
Jun 10 2014 on content Cantata |
Since I have mostly Classical music, I store the actual performers (the vocal soloists, choir orchestra in a Bach cantata, all the singers in a cappella music e.g. Josquin mass) in the comment tag.
Cantata does not display the Comment tag anywhere.
If you'd prefer to display somewhere the Performer tag that would also be allright. |
| | | Re: Re: Re: Re: Sorting
Jun 10 2014 on content Cantata |
Well, you mean, showing them as artist - title, as currently, don't you? |
| | | Re: Re: Song information
Jun 10 2014 on content Cantata |
What I meant was the leftmost column which gets Artist Information from the Internet. I meant if Cantata could optionally display information stored e.g. in the Comment tag instead of this Artist information, just as in the rightmost panel Cantata can display either information (Lyrics) stored in the tags, or information (Lyrics) from the Internet. |
| | | Song information
Jun 7 2014 on content Cantata |
Hi Craig,
Would it be possible to show in the song information panel the information embedded in the song in the comment tag? I mean the way Cantata now handles lyrics. When lyrics tag is set, it is shown, when lyrics tag is not set, Cantata tries to get it from the Internet.
So I would like Comment from the comment tag, and when there is no comment tag, Cantata could get info from the Internet.
It may be that many people do not want Cantata to work this way, then could one at least set the priority? So I would opt for Comment (or Information or whatever) tag first, whereas others could opt for information from the Internet. |
| | | Re: Re: Sorting
Jun 7 2014 on content Cantata |
Then one more thing.
So, since the next version will sort on the basis of Album Artist, would it be possible to show the Artist of the tracks where the album has more than one Artist? I mean the way Cantata works now for albums under Various Artists?
Or at least show the Artist of those tracks where the Artist and the Album Artist is not the same? |
| | | Sorting
Jun 5 2014 on content Cantata |
I'd like to ask some refinement of sorting the albums, when possible.
For albums with more than one artists, Cantata offers two possibilities.
1. If "Group multiple artist albums under 'Various Artists' is checked, then each such album is put under Various Artists.
2. If "Group multiple artist albums under 'Various Artists' is unchecked, then
2a. When there is an Album Artist, the album is put under the Album Artist
2b. When there is no Album Artist, the tracks are put under the different artists.
What I would like:
3a = 2a.
3b. When there is no Album Artist, I would like to put the Album under 'Various Artists'.
Or put differently, I want possibility 1, the Album with multiple artists put under 'Various Artists' only when no Album Artist is given. |
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