audiomuze wrote: > It comes down to understanding how LMS treats albumartist, your personal > preferences and ultimately how you like to explore your music. So for > example if you take the album Starmus: Sonic Universe by Brian May / > Tangerine Dream. Both Brian May and Tangerine Dream are considered > primary artists that created the album as a collaborative effort. There > are a number of ways you could tag this depending on your preferences: > > albumartist="Brian May / Tangerine Dream" > artist="Brian May;Tangerine Dream" > > or > > albumartist="Brian May / Tangerine Dream;Brian May;Tangerine Dream" > artist="Brian May;Tangerine Dream;Brian May / Tangerine Dream" > > or any combination of the above. > > LMS doesn't care how you do it - multiple entries in albumartist will > mean you can find the album under each of the albumartist entries. > Multiple artist entries in each track means you'll find the album and > track by browsing the artists involved. > > For regular albums with only a single artist appearing I set: > artist=Brian May, compilation=0, albumartist=Brian May > > For regular albums with some guest artists appearing on one or more > tracks I set: > artist=Brian May;Tangerine Dream, compilation=0, albumartist=Brian May > > For compilations I set: > compilation=1 and leave albumartist blank Just goes to show how we all use tags differently. For instance I have never been tempted to use the form "Brian May / Tangerine Dream", and to be honest don't know why anyone would do so, but no matter. I have also never deliberately set/unset the compilation flag, entering 'various' as the AlbumArtist instead (and telling LMS I have done so).
In my flacs I use separate tags (using \\ as a separator in puddletag) rather than using ';'. I also have a separate additional set of tags for classical Works, including a WorkArtist tag. I do wish that those who originally invented the tagging system had done a bit of design work first instead of creating the mess we all have to struggle with. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Wired Touch + EDO, coax to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop controls LMS via Chromium. Meridian Explorer USB DAC to listen via Squeezelite on Vortexbox & other PCs as required. Spare Touch in loft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101248 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
