I really value and enjoy the podcasts so please take this feedback as a minor niggle hat if fixed would further improve my appreciation of your efforts in getting thois material out there and influencing attitudes.
Hoping this is an appropriate post in an appropriate place.
I download the podcasts.
They generally (not always) sort, categosise and display OK in Microsoft Media Player.
However, on my MP3 player they often are fail to ‘line-up’ into resonable artist/album album/artist hierarchies.
I have not much investigation but it would seem that MP3 tags and not being populated consistently or completely. I don’t know the detail but I think multiple ‘artist’ fields exists and that different software uses the fields differently hence the inconsistency. E.g. Mp3tag has fields it surfaces called ‘Artist’, ‘Album Artist’, ‘Composer’. It seems that confusion arises between the different way players handle these fields. And some producers don’t populate the fields.
If you have a tame techy who understands this stuff and makes sure that your production process ensures that:
1) Interviewer’s names are used consistently (specifically is it to be ‘DJ’, ‘D. J.’ or ‘D.J.’).
2) That podcast titles are consistent in layout. Perhaps even including a YYMMDD prefix to the track title as well as using the POI_YYYY_MM_DD prefix for the filename)
3) That both the ‘Artist’ and ‘Album Artist’ fields contain the same data.
As I say this is just a minor suggestion that would make a great resource a little easier and better to use.
Best Regards
