Michael Peters wrote:
There are issues in other areas - for example, some CD's will have more than one artist - U2 for example, the album Rattle and Hum.
In that case I'd just use a different ARTIST tag for each track, just as for a compilation album like "Greatest Hits of the '70s". Unlike the ALBUM tag, which really ought to be the same for every track on the same physical CD, there's no reason that the ARTIST tags all have to be the same. If a particular track is a joint effort of several artists, then just list them all in the ARTIST tag for that track. Both iTunes and the Slimdevices databases do a pretty good job of indexing all this stuff so you can find what you want, and that's what really matters. That leaves just the question of how to name the directory that contains the album directory; iTunes' use of "Compilations" is as good as any.
The Vorbis COMPOSER and PERFORMER tags give you even more indexing flexibility, if you need it. I don't usually bother to set the COMPOSER tags on popular music, but some songs are *so* widely covered that it makes sense to do so. E.g., I must have a dozen different versions of Dave Mason's song "Feelin' Alright" by a half dozen different performers: Dave Mason, Grand Funk Railroad, Joe Cocker, Three Dog Night, Traffic, etc.
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