I am in the process of ripping my entire collection, and today ran into exactly the same problem you describe. What I think is happening (at least to me) is that when I rip a compilation CD, sometimes my ripping tool tags it as a compilation, and other times it does not (which may have something to do with the tag data coming from freedb). When I looked at the tags in one tag editor (mp3tag) I did not notice anything amiss; but then I decided to try another tag editor (Tag&Rename) and, once I figured out how to navigate it (which seems somewhat tricky, at least to me) I noticed a field titled "Part of a compilation" that did not show up in mp3tag. To make a long story short ... I checked this box for all songs on the compilation, did a rescan in slimserver, and voila! problem solved. I should warn you that I've only tested this with two compilations - but it did seem to fix both.
If you decide to try Tag&Rename (I suspect that other tag editors will have this field available too, as long as they support flac or whatever compression you are using), make sure you click on the proper tag type first; then, if you double-click on a song from the compilation, you'll see the check box for "Part of a compilation" towards the right side of the screen. There must be a way to make this change for all songs at once, but I haven't figured that out yet (that's tomorrow's task). Also, I tested doing a complete rescan versus just scanning for "new and changed music" in slimserver; thankfully, "new and changed music" appears to be sufficient. Good luck ... I know from firsthand experience how frustrating this situation is! -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19964 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
