>My frustration comes from having asked many times how it is supposed to >work and not getting any answers. > Me too!
Things still unclear to me are: 1. What do I enter as the tag Name/Value for "Compilation"? I use mp3Tag, which allows me to add custom tag entries, so I'm guessing I need "COMPILATION" as the tag name, but what goes in the value? 2. If I have an album that isn't a Various Artists album (such as an album that has one song by a guest artist), how can I tell SlimServer to regard the album as not a compilation? Perhaps COMPILATION=NO/0/False for each track? Setting AlbumArtist for each track doesn't seem to work. 3. What is the best way of handling the case when there are two albums with the same title. Eg. I have three albums called "Remixed", each of which is a various artist album in its own right, but SlimServer shows the union of all tracks on these albums as a single album. I think a solution for (2) above might fix this also for me, as ideally I'd like to set AlbumArtist for the albums (eg. one album is Sarah McLachlan "Remixed", which features artists covering Sarah McLachlan tracks, so having AlbumArtist="Sarah McLachlan" to make the album appear listed under Sarah McLaclan would be a nice solution for me). I know there is the "Common Album Titles" preference, but I actually have quite a few duplicate album titles, and it doesn't seem a nice solution to the problem (it should be derivable from tags, otherwise things like Random Album mix may not work correctly either?). For now, I have made the album names unique, but putting the artist name after the album name, such as "Remixed [Sarah McLachlan]". Occasionally, I scan through my various artists list checking for albums that shouldn't be there, and "fixing" them in this way - it's hard to get it right first time, as I don't want the artist name in every album name, only when there is a clash. I think SlimServer may be able to work out clashes based on duplicate [disc+]track numbers for the same album title at scan time (enhancement request). 4. What differences, if any, are necessary to get these problems working for different tag formats, eg. mp3, FLAC, WMA, etc. mp3Tag supports all of these different formats in a single user interface; but perhaps "COMPILATION" should be called something else when used in ogg vorbis tags, etc. 5. What can be done to achieve the same effects for albums defined by cue sheets. This seems totally broken for me (or perhaps it was never implemented). I would expect to be able to define any tag name=value pair in the cue sheet data, but Slimserver only seems to read specific things it is looking for, such as TITLE and PERFORMER. eg. ARTISTSORT doesn't seem to work. Not directly related to compilation album support, but worth mentioning anyway: 6. I believe mp3 tags define a tag called ORIGARTIST, which I have entered for a bunch of compilation albums featuring cover versions of tracks. It would be nice if SlimServer could detect these and list them like it does with Band/Composer/Conductor tags. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
