pjs;692745 Wrote: > 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. > > <snip> > > 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. :-) The real question is, should anal-retentive be hyphenated or not?
Here is how I would tag the two examples you give. -*1) Album: No Alternative*- 01. Superdeformed (Artist = Matthew Sweet, Album Artist = [empty], compilation=1) 02. For All to See (Artist = Buffalo Tom, Album Artist = [empty], compilation=1) ... 19. Verse Chorus Verse (Artist = Nirvana, Album Artist = [empty], compilation=1) If you do it this way, you won't see a million "Various Artists" under V. I only ever use ALBUMARTIST on compilations if (a) it's an album with one performer who is on every (or almost every) track and a lot of guest artists, such as an album of duets, or (b) a tribute album, with a lot of different artists playing songs of a particular composer or group. Otherwise I think the concept of albumartist doesn't make a whole lot of sense for multi-artist compilations. -*2) If we have an artist who has recorded albums under different names (I think I'd prefer to see all this under Aphex Twin, the Artist, since this makes navigation with the Squeezebox remote much easier.):*- Surfing On Sine Waves (Artist = Polygon Window, Album Artist = Aphex Twin) Analogue Bubblebath 3 (Artist = AFX, Album Artist = Aphex Twin) Joyrex J9ii (Artist = Caustic Window, Album Artist = Aphex Twin) Rushup Edge (Artist = The Tuss, Album Artist = Aphex Twin) Richard D. James Album (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = Aphex Twin) Yes, that's right, exactly the opposite of what you have now (except maybe the 5th one). LMS will group all of them together under the ALBUMARTIST Aphex Twin when you are browsing, but when something is playing it will display the ARTIST tag in Now Playing, so you see which incarnation of RDJ you're listening to. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93812 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
