Slimpy - thanks for sticking with me on this one. As previously said I'd had problems caused by 'Album Artist' tags being automatically updated by WMP (now disabled option)atributing tracks to compilation albums. I've subsequently gone through the collection removing this inaccurate data. But I was still having problems with None compilation albums being identified as compilation albums by SS. So as you say in the song info getting the result Compilation: Yes.
I was confounded by this because no tagging data was indicating this and the album folders were OK as should be. But thanks to your suggestions I have tracked down the problem, which goes like this: - I have 36 genuine Bob Marley Album folders but SS was identifying several as compilations. But I also have a generic Bob Marley folder containing a few early ripped tracks, before I became systematic about ripping albums. In this folder were several tracks also in the seperate album folders. But these odd duplicate tracks had the artist listed as 'Bob Marley & the Wailers' where as the ripped albums had artist info as just Bob Marley. Therefore for a given album SS was listing the full album plus the duplicate track, there by creating multiple artists. I assume that this is how SS defines a compilation album and therefore gives it the dreaded Various Artist label. Removing the duplicates and clear - rescanning resulted in no more compilation / various artists issues with these tracks. I now just have to track down any other instances where this will be causing me problems. Once again thanks for your forbearance and once again it comes down to user error...doh! -- Iznotgold ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Iznotgold's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7739 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28229 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
