shabbs;145765 Wrote: > I was under the impression that the "Album Artist" tag should ONLY be > used for compilations that have various artists and that it should be > populated with the value "Various Artists" for all the tracks on that > album (or whatever value you want, it just has to be the same value for > each track). For albums by a single artist, the "Album Artist" tag > should be blank and the artist should only be listed in the "Artist" > tag. > > Is that not the correct use of the "Album Artist" tag? What does SS do > with the Album Artist tag? That's about as wrong as it could get. But this was a common misunderstanding by a lot of people some time ago. The ALBUMARTIST (or TPE2 in ID3) tag can be used in different ways: 1) Compilations A lot of compilations are compiled by some artist who doesn't necessarily contibuted as a track artist on the album. In this case you can use the album artist for that artist. e.g. Blue Note Trip is a jazz compilation compiled by Jazzanova. Jazzanova goes into the album artist tag. If you have "List albums by band" selected in Server settings - Behavior (together with "Group compilation albums together") then this album will show up under Artist - Various Artists like this: "Blue Note Trip by Jazzanova" instead of "Blue Note Trip by Various artists". But not only will the compilation be listed under Various Artists but also under Artist - Jazzanova. Note: Slimserver does not rely on the album artist tag to recognize an album as a compilation. If tracks within the same directory have the same album tag but different artist tags SS treats it as a compilation.
2) Regular albums The album artist tag can be used to have an album listed under an artist who is not necessarily an artist on that album. I use this primarily in cases such as this one: I have some albums by Horace Silver but I also have two albums by The Horace Silver Quintet. All albums are tagged with their respective artist. If I want to listen to all my Horace Silver albums I would have to select all albums by Horace Silver and all by The Horace Silver Quintet. Now, if I tag all The Horace Silver Quintet albums with the album artist "Horace Silver" these albums are also listed under Horace Silver. When I play the album it still shows The Horace Silver Quintet. -s. -- slimpy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28229 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
