Hi, did some experimenting about this thing and this is what I can confirm. BAND and ALBUMARTIST tags are not treated equally. Once I converted my BAND to ALBUMARTIST, many things changed and started to make more sense:
My set up is: - Group compilation albums together - List albums by band So this is how it behaves: - sorting by albumartist within artists is now working OK. - if the album is natural compilation (multiple authors and there is no albumartist and no COMPILATION tag), it is listed under 'various artists' -if the album is natural compilation (multiple authors and there is albumartist and no COMPILATION tag), it is listed under albumartist. - if there are no artist tags at all and there is an albumartist, then album is listed under albumartist - if there is an unique artist for the album and albumartist, different than artist, album is listed under albumartist. Now, this is not logical, based on the fact that the check box is placed under 'compilations options' and this is not a compilation scenario. - in order to force some artists in a compilation albums to be listed among artists, mark only those tracks with COMPILATION=0 Now, I'm happy that it finally works for me, but not happy because the documetation is wrong ( no mention of ALBUMARTIST; BAND is used all the time and http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerSupportedTags and also guide to tagging) and I spent last year developing my own methodology and going to hoops just to make this work. So, thanks to nice and helpful forum member (thanks Snarly), I finally got the info about ALBUMARTIST tag. Over the weekend I had to convert 10 000 tracks - think of the time only to back that all up. Whoever is responsible for this - poor and sloppy job. P.S. Don't get overly excited about my remark, that's the nature of things; as they say in air traffic control: "you land safely millions of planes, then you have one mid-air, and you never stop hearing about it." K -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAj2aPdQnk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvMNuuFSvN0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDRhRv4q_SI http://youtube.com/watch?v=nlrpe8Ig5m8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=dC9tGlwPln8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45457 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
