garym wrote: > ALBUM ARTIST is displayed in artist column (in this case Bob Dylan). And > in this case Bob Dylan is also the composer but is not track artist. > (and I've NOT ticked composer or conductor or band/orchestra to show up > in artists in my LMS Settings.
I can't say I'm surprised that the anomaly has to do with compilation/album artist designation(s). That whole issue (and sure, go ahead and throw composer into the mix as well) has been confounding since digital music files first got meta tags. I decided way back when that either an album is a compilation or it's not. If it is, I don't care what kind of crazy artist names go in the artist tag because they aren't going to fill my browse by artist list with one-off entries. Compilations have the COMPILATIONS=1 tag set. If it's not a compilation, the artist is the artist. Which can lead to single name artists teaming up to make a new artist (Stills & Nash, Page & Plant, Plant & Krauss, etc.) and I'm fine with that. There's no ALBUMARTIST. Period. And the few that snuck in are now gone. There's no BAND. There's no COMPOSER. For albums with guest artists who are featured on a particular track, I append [featuring ...] or [with ...] to the track name. That way they show up in global searches under songs, but not in albums by artist. For classical albums, I prepend the name (often just the last name) of the composer to the track name. So I can find works by Beethoven or Mozart easily enough. The artist for those albums is the name of the musician or group of musicians playing the work. Generally, for orchestral works, I will append [conducted by ...] or [directed by ...] to the name of the symphony or orchestra. Probably a bit simplistic, but it's made my role as the curator of my collection considerably less daunting. Win7Pro(x64)[3.3Ghz i5, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD system, 15TB storage], LMS 7.7.3 -> Logitech Squeezebox Classic V.3 -> Cambridge Audio DacMagic -> NAD C160 -> 2 x NAD C272 -> Quad 22L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ get.amped's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101600 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
