Read my last comment (16 I think) in that bug. A title from an artist with multiple track artists is not a "Various Artists" compilation. Unfortunately Slim doesn't distinguish clearly enough between the two in the settings pages and this leads to user confusion.
The current "Compilation" is a "Various Artists" type. This is the type where you'd have Compilation set to 1. When you have a valid Album Artist the compilation tag should not be set, IMO. There are currently a number of problems with the BAND(TPE2) and ARTIST ALBUM tag treatments. I have documented on issue in the following bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7698 I'd really appreciate some additional verification and votes to get this one fixed. It's critical to fix it so that the other one (which is the subject of this thread) can also be addressed. I haven't yet filed bugs for some of the other less critical issues associated with these properties, such as when looking at the album's page through the web interface, albums with TPE2 will display both BAND/ORCHESTRA and ALBUMARTIST entries and then have a heading called "Track Artists" where it lists all the artists sequentially. Very strange looking (a mess). My testing has been exclusively with MP3 files but there's a lot of overlap to other formats. Some issues may be from interpretation of what one tag for one format translates to in another. Such as BAND(TPE2) -> ALBUMARTIST. I also use iTunes to tag right now because there is nothing available for the Mac that is as good as even a mediocre tagger on Windows. When using Slim server together with iTunes, it would be nice to have it respect the original meaning of the tags in iTunes (TPE2 *IS* ALBUM ARTIST). -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45810 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
