wow... some things never change. when it comes to VA issues, LMS has them in spades. but otoh, the user can thankfully basically overcome them all right now, (afaik), by making sensible changes to their tags and in the LMS settings.
imo, if a user does the following, they will have almost no issues or strange behavior, in either LMS or any other apps: 1. keep all songs/files from a same album/CD in the same folder. (usually only an issue for some iTunes users or 'sloppy' downloaders) 2. write an explicit "Album Artist" role in the tags of ALL files, (and yes, that means only use files/formats/tag types that support explicit Album Artist tags, and of course use other standard tag fields as well). 3. change the VA naming default setting from nothing/blank in LMS settings, to something that won't be in your tags. the default string value is "Various Artists" but you should change it to something like "-Various Artists-" which will keep LMS from 'masking' files that have the default string in their tags. see here: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9523 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17081 4. optionally, if you want LMS / iTunes etc to explicitly know something is in fact a comp, (which isn't necessary, ergo optional), use compilation tags. you should only have COMP=1 tags (however the tagging format does it) and no other compilation tags, like =0 or whatnot. (the possible exception has something to do with when all files from one album aren't in one folder, which seems to only happen to iTunes/downloading users mostly) if a user does those things above, i am 99% sure it will solve just about all weird browsing issues. if it doesn't, its most likely some other kind of bug in LMS, meaning the fault isn't with the above rules, but rather a LMS bug of some other type. so the above is the current workaround. in the next post i will suggest real fixes. Using: Win7 64 and LMS 7.8 & Duet with ipads and the logitech app, and ipeng on an ipod ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BJW's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103701 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
