>its true that you don't need albumarist tags on everything... for SBS. >but to just put them on everything doesn't hurt > It does change the behaviour a bit in some places within some Squeezebox player UI's. eg. It also means it will list both the artist and album artist in song info, which in most cases will be the same. It also means you get "track artists" instead of "artists", and this may affect some display and navigation actions. Might not be important to you - try it and see, I guess.
>AND makes for a more >or less uniform exp across pretty much most every app. ...except >foobar (it seems). > It's also not necessary for iTunes. I used to use WMP and WinAmp, about 10 years ago, and haven't looked back since. I'd be suprised if album artist was a necessity for those apps too. >if you are using TXXX ALBUM ARTIST (which btw is different from TXXX >ALBUMARTIST for tech supports sake) then my guess is that very few >apps, outside of SBS and Foobar will support it. True - I know FooBar uses TXXX ALBUM ARTIST, and SBS supports both TXXX ALBUM ARTIST and TXXX ALBUMARTIST. I think there are other apps that support ALBUMARTIST, seeing that this is what SBS supported first (MusicBrainz maybe?). However, if you use Vorbis comments (eg. for FLAC files), then ALBUM ARTIST and ALBUMARTIST are more common. SBS treats id3 custom tags like Vorbis tags. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
