lord, when i came to SBS, it was confusing because the standards and terms were all conflated, and thats still the case today. you need to understand some non-intuitive things, first check out the id3 standard for mp3s:
www.id3.org notice there is no frame for "albumartist" (or "album artist") notice there is a frame for BAND called TPE2. notice there is the ability to do user defined frames such as: TXXX ALBUMARTIST thats important, b/c almost EVERY app and tagging source out there will inappropriately "hijack" the TPE2 frame to mean "albumartist" ...even the new beta of mp3tag now calls TPE2 "albumartist" instead of "band" which is clearly out of spec, (but the de facto standard). i think foobar may be the only app that doesn't, and isn't easily configurable to conform to what every other app does by default, including SBS, but i don't use foobar, i base that on what others say. so you need to know what frame you're using for albumartist, and you would make it easy on yourself to just use TPE2 to do that. once you have your AA values in the TPE2 frame, make sure to tell SBS to "treat TPE2 as albumartist" then do a FULL CLEAR and RESCAN. i have TPE2 values on everything, and that defeats the SBS "VA logic." so, if i want SBS to know anything is a comp, (which frankly, really isn't necessary, but if you want SBS to know), then you simply add a comp=1 tag via mp3tag, ie. the TCMP frame, which is called itunescompilation or something like that in mp3tag. also, be aware of this bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9523 does that work things out for you then? -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbrec & ipeng (parents' home) - sbs 7.5.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 45k+ mp3 ::VOTE FOR 'BUG 15604' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15604)!!!:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83232 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
