atrocity;427758 Wrote: > I actually *do* have that album: "The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young". > I have the ALBUMARTIST set as above and when I search for "Neil Young" I > find it in the list of albums under the artist "Neil Young" as well as > in the list of albums with "Neil Young" in the title. Drilling down > into the album shows me all the tracks in their proper order with the > individual artists properly listed. > > Curiously, double-checking right before sending this, I see that I > don't have the COMPILATION tag set...I'm not sure how that happened, > given that dBpoweramp would not have let me set per-track artist names > without checking the COMPILATION box. Hmm...anyway, I've seen the same > behavio[u]r on similar albums that do have COMPILATION set to 1. > Apparently ALBUMARTIST takes precedence over COMPILATION, which makes > perfect sense to me.
Thanks for the real-world data. Without a COMPILATION tag set, it would be logical to assume that the album should be filed under "Neil Young", but no software would have any way of knowing it was a compilation (each of the track artists could just be pseudonyms for Neil Young for all it knows). It'd be treated like my Richard Thompson album in example 1. This doesn't present a problem for you because you want it to display under Neil Young--from your description, it doesn't seem that relevant to you that it's a compilation. But if you wanted it to show up under Various Artists AND Neil Young as well, there's absolutely no way that can happen without a COMPILATION tag. And, I'm guessing, changes to SqueezeCenter. How to display albums is very subjective and potentially impossible to code (we've all been to the record store that files Jethro Tull under T *shudder*). How to figure out what kind of album you're dealing with from embedded tags, however, is pretty simple if it's tagged right. Also, I have to say I have a soft spot for Dinosaur Jr's "Lotta Love" cover. Not that I can stand to listen to it, but I can appreciate it from...uh, really far away. -- CatBus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57922 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
