MrSinatra;589035 Wrote: > 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?
Hiya - yeah I've been reading a lot about tagging standards and foobar and mp3tag are probably the best i've come across so far. When I was looking at the SBS settings I assumed it would work like foobar where you assign your 'various artists/compilation/soundtrack' tag to 'ALBUM ARTIST' which means that if it is an album with more than one artist's song on the CD you add a string to that field. However, it turns out that SBS does the exact opposite to foobar (if this field is populated then it assumes it isn't a compilation album). Anyway - good news - I've got everything sorted in SBS by adding the 'COMPILATION' tag. I still have 'ALBUM ARTIST' (TXXX ALBUM ARTIST) set to "Soundtrack" and "Compilation" for those kinds of albums and (don't have that tag set at all for normal albums)... and it works really well. I can scroll though the artists sub-menu and find compilations and soundtracks now where as before I could only find the albums under specific artists... Thanks for your help. Rob. -- lordgibbness ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lordgibbness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33390 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83232 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
