ModelCitizen;298848 Wrote: > 'tis true. And thanks for your comments, clarification and help.
np. happy to do it. ModelCitizen;298848 Wrote: > I have just this minute finished getting rid of the annoying AlbumArtist > tag. I need to get rid of it as it over-rides the artists tag in the > sort. ok, cool. so its established then that an album artist tag in your files populates the ALBUMARTIST field in SC7, and that then becomes the only way you could sort your music. yes? b/c i would think thats true. now, as to your "wobbly..." i can't speak to how artists come up in the artist list, i almost never use it. but it sounds like ALBUMARTIST over rode it all the time. by removing it, and checking the other categories, you now see ALL the fields, right? this raises very interesting questions... i think a SC7 user should be able to sort their music via almost any tag they please. i also think you should be able to create a list of various tags into one master sorted list. but obviously, thats way beyond where we are now. whats interesting, is that you could not see or do anything with the data in your other tags when you had album artist listed in your tags. ModelCitizen;298848 Wrote: > As per my original post. I wanted both the Artist and the AlbumArtist > tag to appear in an Artist sort, but unfortunately this did not happen > (with the result that such luminaries as Bach, Mozart and Part failed > to appear in my Artist sort).. right, you only got ALBUMARTIST. i agree that ideally you should be able to choose, artist, albumartist, or a combo of the two for listing / sorting purposes. and i would add other tags to that, such as BAND, COMPOSER, etc... we have a mysql dbase, why not exploit it? ModelCitizen;298848 Wrote: > I've now gone and put the stuff I had originally put into AlbumArtist > tag into the Band, Composer, Conductor tags as appropriate. Although > not relevant here, in some cases I have also added the record label > into the band tag for labels that have a very distinct and recognisable > output (Fax, Ultimae, Mille Plateaux, TIP.Records, Council of Nine etc). so now you have no album artist tags, and as a result, with the three checkboxes checked, you can see everything in your home -> artists list. where i think you would have an issue, if it mattered to you, is when you went to sort your music in home -> albums -> artowrk (gallery) view -> sort by artist, year, album. this is b/c things may not "group" where you think them logical to. ModelCitizen;298848 Wrote: > I am very much hoping that when I sort by Artist now, the list will > include all entries from the following tags (as Phil indicated they > will if I check the Music Library > Composer, Band and Orchestra in > Artists options): > > Artist > Band/Label > Composer > Conductor > > Then I'll be a happy bunny. It'll be another 2 hours before I can be > sure as I have to initiate a scan now... :-( > > Thanks for all you help chaps... and remember... we live, and then we > die. > > MC i think phil is right, but i'd love to hear from you if your situation is now sorted out. also, i am curious if you could tell me your impressions of my sorting method on your music. it may not appear wrong to you, b/c in your case, it may not be, as you are using classical music only, (or so it would seem). thx. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.0.1beta - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47202 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
