slimpy;144904 Wrote: > Yes, you have to relocate them. There were some considerable changes in > 6.5 regarding the handling of compilation albums and common album > names. > > 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.
slimpy, this is a SERIOUS problem for me if this is true. i have just upgraded to 6.5.1, and discovered that my database now has all these duplicate album titles - as others have noted, one "copy" of the album title in the database for each track of the compilation. the problem is i have thousands of cds already on disc, with many hundreds of compilation discs. it would be a task of monumental proportions to have to re-organize thousands of songs into different directories. the software i use automatically creates separate directories for each artist on complation albums, and this has worked under slimser 6.2.1 since i've had my readynas (about 2 years). isn't there a way to leave all these files as they are, and have slimserver work for me? why should i have to work that hard for the software? i can't imagine having to find all the component songs for each compilation disc, create a directory by hand, move all the files into that directory, and do this for hundreds and hundreds of discs - surely this is too much. is there some other suggestion besides moving hundreds of gigabytes of data around? -sherm -- shermoid "you are only young once, but you can be immature forever" "life is uncertain; eat dessert first" - anonymous please visit my mcintosh website: http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~sherman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shermoid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=379 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27746 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
