>- You don't have to add ALBUMARTISTs to any album. Artists will end > up in album artist list without them. > Same as SBS.
>- The way to identify and group compilation albums is to add an > ALBUMARTIST, and the string used can be anything you like: "Various", > "Compilations", "Various Artists", whatever. > Same as SBS. >- If ARTIST<>ALBUMARTIST then the artist will not appear among the > list of album artists. > Same as SBS. >- Having a compilation album with no explicit ALBUMARTIST will mean > that the track-artists end up in the album artist browse list. > SBS can be configured to do the same. >This is extremely simple. It requires no configuration options, a >minimum of additional tagging beyond the standard tags, > Same as SBS. >and requires no post-processing, 'merging' of various artists, or >re-evaluating an >album's compilation status when a track is added, deleted or changed. > Implementation-specific internal content. i.e. If SBS scanner didn't report post-processing (it just reported time to scan), no-one would know or question the need for the post-process steps. Who's to say that other apps don't do some post-processing stuff too, eg. iTunes scanning a library decides to group or not group based on compilation tag, album artist tag, etc. But it doesn't report what it is doing when scanning files. i.e. I believe that the scanner only applies merging of various artists for albums that haven't got compilation or album artist tags. So if one of those tags were always present on all songs, there's no work to do to tidy up. Other post-processing is to remove stuff that doesn't exist any more. i.e. if scanning for new/changed files, it also has to delete things that don't need to be there any more. Other apps also need to do that (apart from iTunes doesn't bother, and it just whinges if you try to browse/play something that doesn't exist). >It's the automatic detection of compilation albums by Squeezebox Server >that lets it function without _any_ additional tagging beyond the >standard artist, album, title and track. No need for ALBUMARTIST or >COMPILATION tags at all. Yes, and it doesn't mean that it can't work like other apps - in that it will use Album Artist and Compilation tags if they are present. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
