dborn Wrote: > Wow, thanks to everyone for documenting the tags that are used by > SlimServer. This will simplify things for many people I'm sure! > > Looking at the list of supported tags, most of them are straightforward > and self-explanatory, others are a little less clear what they are used > for (and how they should be filled). > > Such as: > Album sort (TSOA) > Artist sort (TSOP) > Compilation (TCMP) > Title sort (TSOT) > > For discnumber (TPOS), I used the following format: "1/2" (meaning disc > 1 of 2) even though my collection may only contain that one disc and not > the second... This seems to work ok. Artist sort and album sort let you force the sort order of lists of artists and albums. The use of title sort isn't as clear to me, but I imagine it becomes important if you either have no track number tags on certain tracks, or if the server needs to display a list of tracks with duplicate track numbers. Otherwise you'd have no means of ordering to the list. These three tags correspond directly to data fields in the SlimServer database for artist, album and track names, so I'm guessing the recognition of a title sort tag is simply included for completeness.
Artist sort is probably the most used of these, with people using lastname/firstname ordering of artist names. For instance, "Frank Sinatra" sorted as "Sinatra, Frank". Album sort can be used to play games with the way SlimServer sorts albums in certain situations. Prior to v6.5, there was no way to sort albums in the Browse Artwork, so I created ALBUMSORT tags in all of my files to force the sort order to artist/year/album. Now that 6.5 has added the option to select the sort ordering in Browse Artwork I've removed all of these ALBUMSORT tags. The Compilation tag is used to explicitly tell SlimServer whether an album is or is not a compilation (various artists) album. Normally, an album is marked as a compilation when the server sees different artists on diffrent tracks. Sometimes the server gets it wrong, so you can force the treatment of an album by including this tags. Set the value to '1' for True, '0' for False. Discnumber is used by SlimServer, but from what I've gathered, the disc count tag may be ignored, and instead SlimServer determines how many discs there are for an album by the maximum value it sees in the Discnumber tags. For ID3v2 tags I believe the N/M convention is the equivalent of using the disc count (DISCC) tag in Flac files, but I'm not sure what (if anything) happens if you were to set DISCC=3 when you only have tracks from Disc1 in the library. -- 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
