>I have recently hit the same problem, und used the same fix
>COMPILATION = 1 and ALBUM ARTIST = Various Artists
>
You shouldn't need to ever set ALBUMARTIST="Various Artists".

If you have different ARTIST tag values for different tracks on the same album 
title (in the same folder only, I think - that's the recent change), slimserver 
will automatically consider it a COMPILATION, and will list it as a various 
artist album (using the configurable name, the default being "Various Artists").

You can override this by setting ALBUMARTIST to something else.

Also, you can override slimservers automatic detection of a compilation album 
by setting COMPILATION to 0 or 1.

Eg. if you have an album that is incorrectly guessed as a compilation/various 
artists album (such as an album where one track is by a guest appearance), you 
can set the tags of all tracks to COMPILATION=0 and ALBUMARTIST=<main 
contributing artist name>.

I predominantly use FLAC and mp3 - I don't think I've tried any various artists 
albums in other formats or cue sheets, etc.  That may be different...


I believe what I have written above to be correct, but I can't test that at the 
moment, as I am on 6.5b1 split-scanner beta beta release, and it doesn't work 
at all at the moment ;)  If someone could verify it, could we get it written 
into the wiki and/or a help page in slimserver, as it crops up a lot!

Phil
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