I'm going to be doing a bit of guesswork here, as I am not involved with the software.
>The other things isÂ… I have no idea what this means: >Use TPE2/BAND ID3v2 tag as "ALBUMARTIST" > Never used them myself either. I think it is something to do with the way iTunes stores tags. I believe this setting simply makes slimserver see those tags and stores them as if they were ALBUMARTIST, so they are aliases for the same thing. You can ignore the setting if you are using ALBUMARTIST and never use TPE2/BAND. >For my albums that really are compilations, I always put "various" for >AlbumArtist and the actual artist for track artist. Then, like you, I >have several albums where there is on AlbumArtist but there may be one >or a few songs with a guest artist. I tag these just like you and I >also don't like these being lumped under various artists. > It appears that AlbumArtist isn't used by slimserver yet (or at least not if "Group compilation albums together" is selected). In your case, if you believe you have fully tagged your music library the way you want it, you don't want slimserver to do the guessing, so I think you simply select "list compilation albums under each artist". I think slimserver should then put your "various artist" albums under an artist according to your ALBUMARTIST tag (ie. "various"). If there isn't an ALBUMARTIST tag, each track will be stored under (song) ARTIST/ALBUM/TITLE. >I think SlimServer should not try to assume/guess things like it's >doing now. It should only go by what the user has put into the tags. Do >you agree? Not completely. Of course, there should be a clear option to turn off the facility (perhaps off by default). Something like a checkbox "Guess various artist albums" at the top of the Compilations prefs section. I believe this is what the first drop-down list is for, but it's not very clear. I quite like the guessing it is doing, it seems a reasonable thing to do. But if a user has entered tags, such as ALBUMARTIST, TPE2 or BAND, then those should be used instead of any guesswork. I have quite a lot of albums that are various artists, and hardly any have ALBUMARTIST tags. With this new various artist guessing implementation, it has tidied up my music library quite well. There are some albums that are going wrong because I can't override the guessing being performed by use of the ALBUMARTIST tag, but if I were to switch off the guessing, it would be worse ;) I could change my song artists to be the albumartist, and perhaps put the song artist into the track title as others seem to do, but I don't like that. Phil _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
