OK, thanks to everyone for the really instructive responses. I now understand why I wasn't seeing the song artist being updated. It was the ol' Artist vs Album Artist issue. I had changed the Artist in the metadata, but I guess the "key" that's used when you browse "music by artist" is the Album Artist, not the Artist.
Actually, that brings up a good point. If we have a compilation album: Album: No Alternative 01. Superdeformed (Artist = Matthew Sweet, Album Artist = Various Artists) 02. For All to See (Artist = Buffalo Tom, Album Artist = Various Artists) ... 19. Verse Chorus Verse (Artist = Nirvana, Album Artist = Various Artists) If I browse the Squeezebox by Artist, I definitely do not want to see a million "Various Artists" under "V". So I think we'd want the Squeezebox to display "Artist", not "Album Artist" in this case. If we have an artist who has recorded albums under different names: Surfing On Sine Waves (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = Polygon Window) Analogue Bubblebath 3 (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = AFX) Joyrex J9ii (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = Caustic Window) Rushup Edge (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = The Tuss) Richard D. James Album (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = Aphex Twin) I think I'd prefer to see all this under Aphex Twin, the Artist, since this makes navigation with the Squeezebox remote much easier. In both cases where there's a distinction between Artist and Album Artist, I think I prefer Artist. Is there a way to make the importer use the Artist as the key and not Album Artist? Other for our own personal knowledge, is there ever a time when Album Artist is useful for tagging music? I really don't care about the fact that, say, an album was put out by "Frank Black" or "Frank Black and the Catholics", although I *do* care if it's "Frank Black" or "Pixies". I know this is pretty anal, and I apologize, but I'm sure many of you must be as anal as me with tagging your music. :-) Thanks! Pete -- pjs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93812 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
