By creating a small music library of 6 albums and reducing the scan time from about 1hr to about 1 minute I have managed to have a decent play at this Various Artists tagging issue.
The conclusion I have come to is that the Various Artists will correctly identify your album as a compilation if the artist name is different for the same album name and the album artists (TPE2) tag is empty. This is why it wasn't working before as I had "Various Artists" in this tag before, a relic from WMP10. What I haven't tested it for (which I will) is what impact the composer tag has (I suspect nothing although there is a bug relating to this)or whether if the album artist = artist it makes a difference. I also haven't got to the bottom of the Athlete/St Germain issue i.e. if different artists have the same album name but are in different folders will it be picked up as various artists or not. On the other issue of the album artist overiding the artist when the appropriate ss setting is selected I have concluded that for 6.21 (and apparently 6.5b) this is broken and have raised a bug. No matter what I do it will only list by both artist and album artist and not just album artist. Bug raised - http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420 I will attach an example file to this bug as soon as I can get at my home server. -- 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
