>>>>> Phil Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interesting. I've never thought of adding multiple album artists. > What ends up in artist column of the album table for such an album?
Hi Phil, You mean album.contributor? Haven't looked at it in a few months, but I believe it's set to the first ALBUMARTIST. > I don't think I can see the need for multiple album artists, as I > generally make a single album artist out of two names. Right, I never do that, and in fact that's what I'm trying to avoid :-) > Eg. for "Page & Plant" - "No Quarter: Unledded" I have a single > album artist "Page & Plant", with two artists "Jimmy Page" and > "Robert Plant". I can see the album under "Jimmy Page", "Robert > Plant" and "Page & Plant". But you are saying that SC works if I > were to create ALBUMARTIST="Jimmy Page;Robert Plant"? Right. I would have ARTIST="Jimmy Page and Robert Plant" (or however it actually appears on the album), and then add ALBUMARTIST="Jimmy Page;Robert Plant" to all tracks. Perhaps a few more examples: I have albums by "Neil Young", "Neil Young and Crazy Horse", "Neil Young & Crazy Horse", "Neil Young with Crazy Horse", and "Neil Young & The Bluenotes". Adding ALBUMARTIST="Neil Young" to all of them collapses the "Browse Artists" display into a single "Neil Young" entry, so I don't have to remember which way the artist appears on the album in order to find it. But once I click through to a specific album, the artist appears correctly as on the album. For some artist collaborations, especially ones that only generated a single album this is also useful. Examples are: Redbird: ALBUMARTIST="Redbird;Kris Delmhorst;Peter Mulvey;Jeffrey Foucault" Waz!: ALBUMARTIST="Waz!;Steve Tilston;Maartin Allcock;Pete Zorn" So now I can find those albums both under the actual collaboration name as well as the individuals and I don't have to remember the names of all the one-off collaborations. > Do you use a separator character in one ALBUMARTIST tag, or several > ALBUMARTIST tags? Currently I'm using a single TPE2 tag with ";" as a separator, and have patched the server to treat TPE2 as ALBUMARTIST rather than as BAND. But I plan to switch to "TXXX ALBUMARTIST" soon. cheers, greg _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
