dborn Wrote: > Hi, I've read many threads and have had my share of tagging questions > concerning slimserver. It would be very useful to have documentation on > the subject of what tags should be used and how, in order to use all the > great features in slimserver. > > Maybe it's just me but I can't get most of the "special" features of > slimserver to work (such as compilation albums, multiple-disc albums, > etc.) > > I use Mp3tag and have many tags (such as performer, composer, disc, > discc, language) so that I can save this info somewhere until I can > figure out how this is supposed to work. For the "Various Artists" > albums, I finally gave up trying and just set Artist to "Various > Artists" and put the individual artists in the "Performer" tag. > > As a software developper, I know how boring writing documentation is > but a "quick reference" would be nice... ;-) I began putting together some documentaion a while back with the intent of entering it into the wiki. Trouble was... The end behavior is dependent on the combination of a number of server behavior settings with the combination of several different tags and tagging conventions. It got a little too complicated and I was never sure I even understood much of the _intended_ behavior.
My (vorbis) tagging advice for compilations is first and foremost: add a COMPILATION=1 tag to all of the tracks in a compilation album. Next, it may also help to set ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists (note: _not_ the ARTIST tag). I use ARTIST= for all performers. I was never certain of how the PERFORMER tag is treated by SlimServer. It think it may be equivalent to ARTIST. Then again, it could be treated the same as ALBUMARTIST (which, I believe, is the same as BAND). -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
