repman;144895 Wrote: 
> Slimpy - I understand what you are saying, and all of my compilation
> tracks are in individual artist folders (and therefore repeated same
> albums). It still does not explain why it worked in 6.3.1 but not
> 6.5.1. does this now mean I have to re-locate all compilation files...?
Yes, you have to relocate them. There were some considerable changes in
6.5 regarding the handling of compilation albums and common album names.
In 6.3 you had to specify every album name that existed in your library
more than once, e.g. "Greatest Hits". If you didn't these albums were
treated as compilation albums. This was quite cumbersome and did not
follow common sense: Why should an album be treated as a compilation
only because there is another album with the same name by a different
artist. e.g I have three albums called "The Antidote" by three
different artists.
Slimserver now only treats albums as compilations if they have
different artists and the files are in the same directory. 
This is only a problem for people who strictly follow the
/artist/album/song structure and even split up compilation albums. I
suggest you create an artist directory called "Various artists" and
regroup your compilation albums under this entry.

Another (unverified) solution you might want to try: Tag all
compilation tracks with the COMPILATION=1 tag. I'm not sure if this
works though as I haven't actually tried it. But telling slimserver
explicitely to treat these tracks as compilation could do the trick.

-s.


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