erland;698415 Wrote: > This has been like this for a while, so it's not a new issue, not sure > if it's even a bug. The issue is that my Now Playing screen on my Touch > for my compilation albums display artist as: > "Various Artists, Ulf Lundell"
I only see the track artist for my compilations. > My tagging is: > ARTIST=Ulf Lundell > COMPILATION=1 > MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists > MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTSORTNAME=Various Artists > > I suspect the result is that SBS interpret the MUSICBRAINZ tags the > same as ALBUMARTIST="Various Artists" which I think is pretty typical > tagging scheme unless you manually adjust it after ripping. Yes, no doubt that's what is happening. It's well known by now that Squeezebox Server doesn't play well with ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists. I've found that with the software and methods that I use, the "manually adjust it after ripping" is required of all albums if I want them to work well in Squeezebox Server. Adding ARTISTSORT, COMPILATION, ALBUMARTIST, ALBUMARTISTSORT fields all require post-ripping tag adjustmnents. If I used MUSICBRAINZ metadata, removing unwanted MUSICBRAINZ fields would just be another thing that I'd automate as part of the process. > If it really need to display "Various Artists" it would be a lot better > if it showed it last, as this: > "Ulf Lundell, Various Artists" > > Because then I would at least see the primary artist without having to > wait for the text to scroll so it's visible. But on an album with guest artists, the "primary" artist is most likely the album artist, so the order makes sense for that case. Of course there are other cases, such as when you have only a guest artist doing a track by himself without the album artist, where it's completely wrong. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94357 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
