JJZolx;206775 Wrote: > Mmmmmm... maybe. > > Albums with the same name remain a challenge. If artist 'a' has an > album named 'xyz' and artist 'b' has one named 'xyz', then do you have > one compilation album named 'xyz' or two non-compilations? A smart > cataloging program will take into account the folder locations of > tracks. >
Slimserver doesn't care where the file are. It will lump both albums together as one non-compilation album. Sorted by the "first" artist in my experience. > > For instance, in the above example, if they were each marked with an > ALBUMARTIST (set equal to ARTIST in both cases) then that should make > it obvious to the scanner that they're not the same album. > This is absolutely required if running SS with the option to use the iTunes library for finding music files. I've had to set the ALBUMARTIST tag on a number of albums for the very fact of SS combining them if that tag is not set. Erasure and The Charlatans' "Wonderland" for example along with INXS and The Beloved's "X." > > Unfortunately, _requiring_ all of a compilation album's tracks to > reside in the same folder was the "50lb sledgehammer" approach. Easy, > dumb, and sure to aggravate some people. I keep all my albums in album folders under artist or other specialty folders. Compilation albums do feature all their tracks within a single folder. As far as I know no problems are caused when I move them around though. Not in iTunes and not in SS after it rescans everything. Slimserver has plenty of bugs, and some come and go from nightly to nightly, but in general, you should make sure your tags are correct and complete before considering something a bug or even flawed design implementation. And I'm happy to not have found all of Slimserver's bugs. :) -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31716 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
