I don't really want to hijack this thread but I thing it would be good to keep all the comments about various artists together and I also think that some of what I am experiencing has some impact on your issues.
I have been struggling big time with the compilation artist issue the "getting my Now 3,219 CD to appear as one single artist - Various Artists" issue. I struggled for a couple of days and surprsingly despite numerous posts no help was forthcoming. However finally I have managed to do it. The answer was I-Tunes, installing this and using it to set the song info and setting it as part of a compilation actually works. I have no idea what tag this is changing as it has no effect on the view of Tag&Rename which I usually use for tagging. I think then in conclusion that the whole TPE2/band/album artist tag, call it what you will, is not working, at least not for me and has no effect on the way my music is viewed no matter how many boxes I tick in my settings. For example I have an album which has 12 tracks, 3 of these are tagged with an artist "Frank Black, Frank Black and The Catholics". The Band Artist is "Frank Black" and the other 9 tracks are just "Frank Black". These songs appear under both "Frank Black" and also "Frank Black and The Catholics" for all settings. Under the group by Band I think it should just be "Frank Black". Can anybody confirm this? I think this is why MeSue is getting the issues she is. I think if it did work then her tagging would produce the results she wants i.e viewing by album artist tag. This has been very frustrating but once it is all sorted I will be updating the Wiki so other people are not so easily confused as me. -- mattybain "That suit's as sharp as a page of Oscar Wilde witticisms that have been rolled up into a point, sprinkled with lemon juice and jabbed into someone's eye! " - Ace, Stoke Me A Clipper _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
