JJZolx;206775 Wrote: > > When albums are split among folders, either you may need to do > something special to unify the albums or else you need to expect > less-than-perfect scanning results. I think there are a number of ways > this could have been done, but it takes some additional intelligence on > the part of the scanner and/or some additional attention to tagging. > 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. > > 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.
and this is the problem i think we're all addressing. in slimserver 6.2.1 and in 6.3.1, compilation albums split among different directories were perfectly fine! slimserver correctly analyzed the tags, figured out that all tracks, even in different directories, which had the same ALBUM tag were really part of the same album. a single album would show up on the slimserver web interface, and all its tracks listed neatly below that. once i had to go to 6.5.1, this no longer held true. i was told by slim tech support that i had to re-arrange the hundreds of compilation albums into "one directory per album", and re-locate all the thousands of tracks myself. so, it's not so much that i'm unwilling to tag my tracks, or do *some* work to get the database in shape, it's more that what used to work in an older version of slimserver now no longer works, and the USER gets blamed for be unwilling to bend to the software's needs. so, it's a question of "focus". some of us are consumers - we want the product to work. some of us are geeks - we want to work the product. i used to be on the geek side, but have moved to the consumer side. i've spent too much of my life bending to computers' needs. i want them to bend to my needs now. :-) just my $0.02. -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=31716 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
