>I'm not losing my mind over this but I'm telling you >it's not a problem with my tags but with the way the Squeeze server >deals with it. Oh no, not another one...
I bet you it is your tags, and you haven't read the numerous posts in this thread about the differences of album artist and band. >I think the presence of an album artist tag should >override the compilation setup they now have. > It does. >Oh and I'm really not sure how you can tell someone it's automatically >their fault when you haven't seen their tags. Because its obvious that they are using band, not album artist. >Also many other programs >allow you to have multiple artists as in an artist and album artist. > Some understand delimiters in artist tags, such as "Robert Fripp;Brian Eno", so that they read that as being two artists. I believe Media Monkey does that. They don't generally allow multiple artist tags to be set. Although many tagging applications report "album artist", this is usually storing in the band tag. A quick google suggests that this is the case with Media Monkey, so suprise suprise you haven't got album artist tags at all, and SqueezeCenter reads your songs as having a band. You can confirm this by browsing to a song, and seeing if it reports an album artist or a band contributor in the song information panel. >Mediamonkey automatically move and keep all my music by album artist. Db >poweramp rips to my collection by album artist > Actually they are ripping into the band tag... A quick google for "dbPowerAmp album artist band" found a hit: "I can confirm that dBpoweramp uses the BAND tag for album artist information when ripping to mp3 (and uses ALBUM ARTIST for Ogg as stated previously)." >It just makes sense to organize this way, it keeps your albums in the right >folder and shows the current performer on playback. > Yes, it makes perfect sense to organise music to have album artist tags, and SqueezeCenter is working exactly as it was intended. There's just confusion over "album artist" for mp3 tracks due to a lack of a standard tag for storing it in id3v2.3 tags. Quite a lot of applications use Band, and report it as album artist, which just makes things very confusing for novices that want to use their music across different applications. >I'm not losing my mind over this, but it would be nice >to have it all laid out so a person can try to adapt if possible. > I think as a minimum, the content of this thread should be summised and fed back into some official documentation. There should also be a new option to allow SqueezeCenter to interpret ID3 TPE2 (Band) as Album Artist, for compatibility with other non-standard apps. This has been said many times now... Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
