Philip Meyer Wrote: > > As I understand it, if you have two VA albums of the same name, and all > tracks on both albums are tagged as belonging to a compilation, all > tracks will appear on one album in slimserver. > No, the only way to determine if two albums have the same name is by looking at the contributor. If two tracks have different contributors they are marked as two different albums. However, this does not work for compilation albums as they have different contributors by definition. You would end up with as many albums as there are tracks in your compilation unless slimserver recognizes the tracks as compilation tracks. That's why you have to use the compilation tags. Now, if there are no compilation tags and each track is regarded as belonging to a different album, how should automatic compilation recognition work?
> > It removes the "Common Albums > Titles" hack, and if the album isn't explictly marked as a compilation > - will > use the primary contributor in addition to the album title as search > criteria > for determining if a new album object should be created, or an old one > reused. > > This should work for 99% of the users out there. > > There is a drawback however - for albums that each track has a > different > primary contributor _AND_ the album is not explitly marked as a > compilation > (iTunes, Tag & Rename, metaflac) - a duplicate album will be created > for each > track in that album. > > Instead of continuing to put in hacks and prefs that confuse users, I > believe > this is much more straightforward. The answer for the duplicate problem > is "Tag > those albums as compilations". > > The drawback there is a VA album that has the same name as another VA > album. > I'm not sure how to get around that one. Suggestions welcome. But I > think we > have the common case fixed here. > > -- slimpy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23295 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
