>however i get the songs duplicated. for example, on one compilation, i have >duran duran - planet earth. however i also have a duran duran album, >this single song appears under artist next to this album under 'duran >duran' as a single song as well as in the full compilation under >'various artists'
The songs aren't duplicated in your library, they are the same album/songs, just visible from several places. If you had an album with all songs performed by two artists, the album would appear under both artists. Eg. if you enter two artist tags: ARTIST="Pitch" and ARTIST="Potch", you would find the album listed under both artists. When browsing albums, you would see the album listed once by Pitch, Potch. Having a compilation album or album artist is similar - you have the album listed under Various Artists or the album artist name, and also under each performing artist (but only the songs that the artist performs on). There is one caveat to that though - if "Group compilation albums together" [sic: this means group songs appearing on a compilation together] the album is only listed under the performing artist if that artist have other albums in your collection. So, if you have guest artists on compilation albums or albums with an album artist, they will not appear in the artist list. I think most people like this - if browsing an artist, you want to see all songs that the artist has performed on. However, you don't want Browse Artists to be filled up with lots of artists that have only had a small part on one or two compilation albums. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
