At the risk of rehashing old territory, I would like to get a few things down re artists, album artists and compilations. I've a massive music collection and through careful tagging LMS has largely served my needs other than where aspects of classical music are concerned.
For all tracks in every album in my collection I have: - one or more artist entries For all non-compilation albums I have: - compilation=0 - an albumartist entry For compilation albums I have - compilation=1 - no albumartist entry For classical albums I have - a composer entry for all tracks For non-classical music there may or may not be composer tags for the tracks. I've never paid much attention to this for non-classical music. I don't consider artists and composers to be the same thing. Artists and Bands are for all intents and purposes the same thing. I like to be able to leverage metadata to explore my library, so often times will have added artist metadata to albums such as adding in band member names on particular tracks on a band's albums. This way if I want to listen to/ explore all tracks with Christine Mcvie on vocals, the tracks will have an artist entry for Fleetwood Mac and another for Christine. album artist would be Fleetwood Mac or Chicken Shack or whatever the band happens to be. So when browsing ALL artists I would not want to see Composers or Conductors, only whatever artists appear under the artist (and presumably band tag - I don't use it) When browsing albumartist I would not expect to see any compilations unless I had for some reason explicitly added an album artist entry to that album SqueezeWand | 'Vivere DAC MKI' (http://vivereaudio.com/post/2013/08/16/DAC-I-is-Born!.aspx) | 'ATC SCA2' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/electronics/source-pre-amplifiers/sca2/) | 'ATC SCM100ASLT' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/loudspeakers/tower-series/scm100aslt/) *'Linux finally gets a great audio tagger' (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/linux-finally-gets-a-great-audio-tagger.html): 'puddletag' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/)* - now packaged in most Linux distributions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101264 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
