venus light;265120 Wrote: > Frank, > > Thanks so much for all your hard work with this - it's exactly what > I've been looking for. > > I've got a couple of questions... > > 1) How is it supposed to handle Various Artists? I've tagged all my VA > albums as: > Artist - Various Artists > Title - Artist / Song title > I've found it easiest for organization. Yet, ACC gives each track in > each of the albums it's own album entry. Therefore, if I've got a VA > album with 20 tracks, then I get 20 different albums with 1 track each > in ACC. > > 2) Along the same lines as #1, I've got 2 albums in a collection of 551 > that is split up in my ACC report as 10 different albums - each with 1 > or 2 tracks in it. I can't seem to find anything in the tags that is > causing this - SS treats it as a single album. > > 3) Artists with "The" at the beginning get alphabetized as such. Is > there a way to make ACC ignore the leading "The"? > > 4) And finally, there are a couple of instances where the printout is > cutting off an album listing in the middle of a list of songs. Is > there anyway to fix this? > > > I apologize if any of these issues have already been covered in this > thread - I didn't see any when I searched for them. > > Thanks again for all your hard work!
Hi Venus Light, Thanks for using ACC and your feedback on it. I hope I can answer your questions. I assume that you are using the RC3a version on this. 1. How ACC treats VA albums; It performs a general DB query and then processes all VA albums and test if these are really true VA albums. SS/SC also tag an album as VA if one other artist is featuring or performing on the album. These cases are changed to the correct album artist by ACC. Every track appearing as a single album can have the following causes; - Not all album tags are exactly identical. Even a difference in character case somewhere causes SS/SC to assign a new album ID - Multiple CDs must be distinguished either by using the Disc tag or by album name (put cd number in album name) 2. I think the same causes as described in (1) 3. This request has been made before and there even is a solution with code in this thread on it from Phil if i'm correct. It is a personal preference I think but its on my future version option list. So yes, it is possible. 4. ACC has a printseperator function (can be disabled in the GUI) which inserts CSS code only used for printing so has no effect in Firefox or IE but you can see its effect in the print preview. The function uses a number of criteria; maximum number of tracks that can be displayed on a page using the current Tracklisting font. Another criteria is the maximum of rows that can be displayed. In the ACC help screen there is some info about it and how you can solve issues with it which is mostly by using smaller page margins to be set from firefox or IE. There is also some info about getting rid of the ugly header/footer and how to place decend page numbers on the pages. Please let me know if any of my answers are indeed true and helpfull. If not, maybe I can fix things with your feedback. Maybe you can send me (or post) a screenprint of the tags from the albums causing trouble from i.e. Tag&Rename/MP3Tag. Frank -- SilverRS8 ------------------------------------------------------------ Author of AlbumCatalogCreator for SlimServer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
