Moonbase;380908 Wrote: > The main reason is a very simple one: For broadcasting purposes, I > -need- (and want) all songs I have from any one artist stored together, > namely, in (below) an »artist« folder. Lets say Im more interested in > which titles I have than on which album they were.
do you browse them via a file explorer? what are you using to broadcast? Moonbase;380908 Wrote: > Its still nice (and needed because of legal playing restrictions) to > know on which albums and/or compilations they were. So if I had a > compilation having a Queen song and a Pink Floyd song, they would end > up in something like > > M:\Music\Queen\xxx > M:\Music\Pink Floyd\xxx > > Of course the single songs would still have the album name of the > compilation (like »Greatest Rock Songs«), also COMPILATION (or TCMP) > would be set. They would also have the same ALBUMARTISTSORT, the same > ALBUMARTIST, the same MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM ID and so on. So there would be > enough tags to uniquely aggregate all of them back into an album. Since > SC is basically an album-oriented system, Id like it to do this job > correctlywhile still using the music storage scheme I set up for other > purposes. i understand better now, altho i'm still curious what it is about your environment that makes this methodology required? SC btw will NOT call something a comp IF albumartist is set, UNLESS you also set comp=1 which you say you have. so i def do think you are running into the "Greatest Hits" issue. if you could turn that "logic" off, i'd bet you'd get the results you want. but even tho erland wrote the code to turn on VA logic for me, slim hasn't included it yet, so you might be facing an uphill battle. however, i fully believe that logics should be optional, for exactly this type of case you are an example of. Moonbase;380908 Wrote: > Meaning, it should not show me 40 »compilation albums« with »1 album > with 1 song by 2 artists« each, but either -one- album containing the > 40 songs or -two- albums containing 20 songs each (they are on two > discs), depending on which setting I choose. i agree. btw, i think the "one song by two artists" thing is another bug that may or may not be related. i'm not sure if a bug report exists for that, but when i brought it up i got the impression they were aware of it. i did do a bug report about the erroneous aggregate stats SC reports, and they basically are waiting for 8303 on that, and i'd guess this issue fits into that too. Moonbase;380908 Wrote: > This it should of course do if all songs from the compilation are in one > folder (a system probably most people use), but -also- if the songs of > the compilation are stored elsewhere, like in the artist's folders. > > In case you wonder how Id group compilations together -without- SC I > use simple playlists, generated by Mp3tag when I check the songs into > the system, i.e. > > M:\Playlists\Albums\Various Artists - Greatest Rock Songs.m3u > > Hope this clarifies it a bit. Its sometimes not easy to explain a > complicated issue for users and developers alike ;-) (In my case, I > tend to get too technical, apologies.) yes i better understand your issue now, but am curious about your broadcasting setup. (i do some FM radio stuff, and use proprietary automation stuff here, and what they do, is force you to import all songs, and they make a DB out of it, the info isn't in the music files, but in the DB) -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (my home) / SBR (parent's home) / SBC (my home) - w/SC 7.3.2b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57807
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