Daren;366616 Wrote: > I think part of the problem is that I've got used to the way other apps > work (e.g. Media Monkey, WinAmp) with regards the album artist tag, > which for my entire collection ia set as 'various artists'. These > bitters clutter up my artist view in SC. It will be too much hassle to > change this notation.
yep, this is something i've been preaching... other apps like winamp not only use TPE2 [out of spec] to mean "album artist" but they also populate it with either the artist name or "Various Artists" or whatever. Slim/SC would rather that wasn't true, but it is. so the question in my mind has always been, how can i get a reasonable experience out of both SC and other apps? (i use SC and winamp mostly, but i also share my files with others besides) the long and short of it is i have no intention whatsoever of giving up using TPE2 as album artist. if i want or need SC to know something is a comp, i should be able to set an explicit comp tag, and presumably that would over-ride anything else. Daren;366616 Wrote: > If I understand it right, my various artists are contained in the TPE2 > tag which is what it is not really meant for. if i understand you right, you have "Various Artists" in your TPE2 field for all your comps, yes? Daren;366616 Wrote: > However I am interested in Philip's comment about the custom tag (called > TXXX ALBUMARTIST)and that SC can be configured to fall back into a > compatibility mode for mp3 files, where the id3v2.3 Band tag is > interpreted as Album Artist. How is this done? these are two different options, or really, two different methods. Phil is saying you could add a whole new tag, called TXXX ALBUMARTIST and give it a value and SC will support it. that way you could still use TPE2 as Band, and not Album Artist. however, i would suggest you try this: go to the SC settings, and enable the option "Treat TPE2 as Album Artist" and then do a full clear and rescan. when u do this, SC will take all your TPE2 values to mean they are album artist values. its essentially a scanner option, it determines what field TPE2 populates in the SC DB. the drawback is your comps won't be identified as comps to SC. but since they will have an ALBUMARTIST value in the SC DB, the individual track artists will be suppressed from the artist listing. you could still set an explicit comp tag if you wanted to. phils way is the best way if you only care about SC, and don't mind going to all that effort. in his way, you basically tag such that TPE2 would still mean "band" and you use a user defined tag to mean album artist, and you would only set that on albums you didn't want detected as VA albums. the problem is his way isn't compatible with winamp, and lot of other apps. so its a personal preference on your part. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55878 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
