Philip Meyer;601534 Wrote: > >If an album has both an AA tag and a compilation tag, the album artist > >will not show up in the artist list (at least not if you have set this > >list to show only album artists). > > > I think this is because all compilations are shown under the artist > name used to represent compilations. When you get into "Various > Artists" (the default name for compilations), the actual album artist > name would be displayed. This is because "Various Artists" isn't > really an artist name, but a placeholder that means "Compilations go > here". > > However, I believe that compilations with an alternative album artist > tag would be displayed within an artist if you had normal albums in > your collection by that artist. e.g. if you set COMPILATION=1 and > ALBUMARTIST=The Beatles for a tribute album, that album would then be > listed with other normal albums by The Beatles.
This is all correct. But I have VA albums with songs/poems written by poets that are not album artists themselves and I want them to show up in the artist list so that I can easily find all versions of the poems. Philip Meyer;601534 Wrote: > > >I have not tried your second example > >but my guess is that there will be a VA entry in the artist list as > >soon as one album has a compilation tag. > > > > >In the standard Genre/Pop menu I get a list of all track artists (not > >just album artists). > > > Are you sure? I don't think I'm seeing this. I think I have added > COMPILATION=1 to all of my compilation albums, rather than auto-detect > compilations as I sometimes load them into iTunes. Maybe this makes a > difference? The genre behaviour I am sure of (at least I see track artists from VA albums; I have not checked for track artists appearing only on normal albums). I have also compilation 1 set for all my VA albums. -- vagskal 2 x SB3 (wired), Receiver (wired), Boom (wireless), Controller, iPeng on iPhone 4 & iPad, muso on remote computer running Win 7 | 7.5.3 on Win XP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vagskal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20778 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84475 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
