Now, how about 'guest' artists? Guest artists are almost by definition going to appear on non-compilations. But at first glance, SlimServer will tag the album as a compilation because the ARTIST sets are going to differ among the tracks. You might have the same one ARTIST on every track, but if track #3 has a second artist, then the compilation flag is raised.
How can these albums be seen as non-compilations? It either requires an ALBUMARTIST tag or else an explicit COMPILATION=0 (false) tag. Who gets the 'by' line? Without an ALBUMARITST it's going to have to be every artist that appears on the album. Say you have the Frank Sinatra album 'Duets', and you've marked tracks with an explicit COMPILATION=0, but no ALBUMARTIST. There are thirteen different guest artists appearing on the album, so you'd get a by line of 'Frank Sinatra, Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Sreisand, etc.' Where would it get grouped in an artist list? That conglomerate of artists would become an implied albumartist unto itself and get a spot in the artist list. So you almost _have_ to tag these albums with an ALBUMARTIST to have any sense made out of them. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36062 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
