One thing I did not specify in my "directions" post was that I was using Slimserver exclusively with MP3 files at the moment. So while the behavior described (listing by ALBUMARTIST if present) is working, I don't know for certain that it will work the same way for FLAC.
This tagging and setting method turns out to be the cleanest and most straight forward to getting albums listed in the same order in both Slimserver and iTunes. Case in point: Groove Armada's "The Dirty House Sessions." For all intents and purposes, it is a compilation album, where all except two tracks are from different artists (those two are by Groove Armada themselves). Lately I have been doing all tagging in iTunes and have cleared the COMPILATION tag and set ALBUMARTIST to "Groove Armada" This will list the album as being by "Groove Armada" in both iTunes and Slimserver. Slimserver will not list the individual artists when browsing by artist. IMO, this is the correct behavior and doesn't need a setting. If you set ALBUMARTIST it should override the track artist for the display and sorting of the album unit, while showing the track artist when looking at the individual track. There's not much point to that tag if this weren't the case. If I set the compilation tag, iTunes will list the album under "Various Artists" regardless of the ALBUMARTIST setting. Now, iTunes has a bug in it that requires an additional tagging step that has only been possible since 7.1. With the ALBUMARTIST tagged for every track, the album will still not sort under that artist in iTunes. Instead it gets sorted according to the name of the artist for the first track. To fix this you have to change the TSOP (ARTISTSORT) for the first track (or all tracks) to be the same as ALBUMARTIST - "Groove Armada" in my example. This may very well have broken in a recent nightly. I was having all kinds of scanner issues with the nightlies last month so I reverted to an older version from February. I will probably update sometime this week and manually clean out all caches for a complete rescan to see what's what. -- 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=35854 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
