On 2/1/06, dborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I should try a small subset of my music collection with maybe 1 > or 2 multi-disc albums and 1 or 2 "various artists" albums. Now it takes > too long to go change everything (even if Mp3tag is good) and then > rescan the whole database. This makes a big difference - I was struggling with exactly the same thing you are, a while back, and after several rounds of change tags / rescan, I got sick of waiting and copied a few folders to a test location. I included one of each case that I was trying to solve, i.e. mp3 and flac for one disc, multi disc, various artist and one artist (8 combinations only - I didn't bother combining various artist / multi disc).
> Last time I tried to use the multi-disc album, I set the title to the > same thing for each disk, numbered all my tracks starting at 1 for each > disk and then I used tags "disc" of "discc" to identify the order of the > discs. This did not work, I got all of them mixed up with multiple > tracks #1, #1, #1, #2, #2, etc... I have this working how I want it to, mostly. Here's what I do, in case it helps... I used MP3Tag, same as you. First thing to check is that you are only using ID3v2 tags (not ID3v1.1). You've probably already done this, but if not there's a thread about it here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17678 The last thing I do before I commit tracks into my main music folder is check the 'Tags' column in MP3Tag to make sure there is only ID3v2 listed there. And some STILL get through. I also use the following structure for my folders, which is worth checking as well, in case SlimServer is guessing at tags for some reason: drive:\mp3\artist\album\(tracks) drive:\mp3\artist\album\disc 1\(tracks) drive:\mp3\artist\album\disc 2\(tracks) For various artists: drive:\mp3\various\album\(tracks) drive:\mp3\various\album\disc 1\(tracks) Then, for both MP3 and FLAC, for multi-disc I do this, which works: Set DISC to the disc number (usually 1 or 2) Set DISCC to the disc count (usually 2) This results in the albums showing up under an artist as such: The Divine (Disc 1 of 2) (1995) The Divine (Disc 2 of 2) (1995) For MP3 various artists, I just set the ARTIST tag to the actual artist, and the system shows the album correctly as a Various Artists album. For FLAC various artists, I set the ARTIST tag to the actual artist, and the BAND and TPE2 tags to the album artist, and again this shows the album correctly as a Various Artists album. Setting the BAND and TPE2 tags may not be necessary - I might have only done this to try to make the album artist show up in the artists list (which it doesn't). Under Server Settings | Behavior, I have Compilations set to "Group compilation albums together" and "List albums by band". Under Group Discs, I have set it to "Treat multi-disc sets as multiple albums". Of course, you need to do a wipe and rescan after changing all this. Finally, I'm running a recent SlimServer Version 6.2.2 (6200) on Windows XP SP2. Hope that helps, Geoff _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
