mattybain Wrote: > Frankly until someone from SD comes back and clarifies exactly how it is > supposed to work and the bugs for WMA files are resolved I don't see any > point in creating the wiki entry.
I submit that we know quite a lot about the behavior, and that having this information in a wiki would save people a lot of time and angst; when I was trying to debug this for myself, I spent hours wading through way too many forum entries trying to piece together how to make "various artists" work ... and eventually stumbled on a post that mentioned the WMA bug. What do we know: 1. How we think it is "supposed" to work, as described earlier in this thread. 2. The code is buggy, so it may not work as you expect it to. 3. If your files are WMA, it will definitely not work as you expect it to. 4. The first step is to set "Group compilation albums together" and "List albums by band" ... and pray. 5. If that doesn't work, use T&R to set the "Compilation" tag, or create an arbitrary tag if you are using another tagging tool. 6. Once you've done this, you need to rescan, but rescanning for "new and changed" music does not always work so it is better to "clear library and rescan everything" and best to just stop slimserver, delete the cache, and restart. 7. Some non-compilation albums still have multiple artists and may cause you some grief (which was the original question posed in this thread). I think the above (with more details added) all belongs in the wiki, which can be modified in the future if things ever get better. OK, so maybe I do know enough to write (or at least start) a wiki entry on the subject after all ... -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21944 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
