>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. > For albums where I have an implied album artist (e.g. compilations where I haven't added ALBUM ARTIST=Various Artists, where the scanner has auto detected the album as a compilation and assigned album artist=Various Artists), Touch Now Playing screen only reports the actual artist(s) performing on the song.
This is because the scanner has stored Artist tags against the album, not Track Artists. So the vast majority of my library (including compilations) looks okay on the Touch Now Playing screen. However, where I have the occasional guest artist and have explicitly tagged the album with an Album Artist, I see the Album Artist first followed by any Track Artists. Where a guest that performs with the main artist on a song, this is okay (I would tag the song with both artists, duplicating the album artist as a track artist anyway). However, where there is a song on an album that is ONLY performed by a different artist, it also reports the Album Artist, which is incorrect. e.g. an album where artist AAA appears on most songs of an album and want the album to appear under that artist, I'd tag all songs of the album with Album Artist=AAA. If artist BBB also appears on track 10, I'd tag that track 10 with artists=AAA and BBB. If there were an 11th song only performed by artist CCC, I'd tag that only with artist=CCC, and Album Artist=AAA. Track 10 should be reported as being by AAA and BBB (and it is). Track 11 should be reported as being by CCC, but is reported as AAA and CCC (even though AAA is not an actual performer on the track). Another example could be a tribute album. Some people tag tribute albums with the songs being performed by that tribute band, but add the original artist as the Album Artist (such that the album appears grouped under the original artist. e.g. A tribute band called "After Genesis" with the album artist being "Genesis". They wouldn't want the song reported as by "Genesis and After Genesis". Another example could be soundtrack albums. Some people add Album Artist=Soundtrack, so they can find them all listed in one place. But I wouldn't expect to see artist=Soundtrack on the now playing screen when I play a single song (eg. random songs from my music library), only the artists that perform on the song. I class that as a bug. It's not correct to report the album artist when the reporting context is for song artists. I'm playing a song, so I should only see the artists performing on the track, NOT the album artist. And if I'm browsing the album, I should only see the album artist(s), not all track artists. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
