Trying to follow this thread makes my head hurt :confused: At some point I suppose I will have to figure out how this will work for my library. I found that "Group compilation albums together." "List albums by all artists for that album" and "Treat TPE2 MP3 tag as Band" gave me the cleanest browse by artist listing and I was still able to find main artists that appeared on compilation albums.
I decided way back when that either an album is a compilation or it's not. If it is, I don't care what kind of crazy artist names go in the ARTIST tag because they aren't going to fill my browse by artist list with one-off entries. Compilations have the COMPILATIONS=1 tag set. If it's not a compilation, there is one ARTIST for all tracks. Which can lead to single name artists teaming up to make a new artist (Stills & Nash, Page & Plant, Plant & Krauss, etc.) and I'm fine with that. There's no ALBUMARTIST. There's no BAND. There's no COMPOSER. For albums with guest artists who are featured on a particular track, I append [featuring ...] or [with ...] to the track name. That way they show up in global searches under songs, but not in albums by artist. For classical albums, I prepend the name (often just the last name) of the composer to the track name. So I can find works by Beethoven or Mozart easily enough. The artist for those albums is the name of the musician or group of musicians playing the work. Generally, for orchestral works, I will append [conducted by ...] or [directed by ...] to the name of the symphony or orchestra. My approach is maybe somewhat simplistic, but it has worked well for me. Now if I could just get my genres cleaned up... Win7Pro(x64)[3.3Ghz i5, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD system, 15TB storage], LMS 7.7.3 -> Logitech Squeezebox Classic V.3 -> Cambridge Audio DacMagic -> NAD C160 -> 2 x NAD C272 -> Quad 22L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ get.amped's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101264 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
