gregklanderman;300632 Wrote: > >>>>> JJZolx <JJZolx.395wrz1210368601 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com> writes: > > > Albums tagged like this would be marked compilations, wouldn't they? > > > Do they get grouped under the VA artist when you browse albums > sorted > > by artist, or do they get grouped with the ALBUMARTIST? > > These albums get grouped under the ALBUMARTIST. > > See Phil's post re: ALBUMARTIST vs. TPE2. > > How have you set the top 5 options on the settings tab which includes > the compilation settings as the 4th and 5th items?
Well, I've figured out the difference, but the logic completely escapes me. These are all Flac files, no BAND tags, so the only option that's relevant is 'group compilations', which I have set. If I take two such duet/guest-artist albums, each with an ALBUMARTIST, and mark one explicilty COMPILATION=0 and the other with no COMPILATION tag, then the former has the compilation column in the database set to 0, the latter set to NULL. Screwed up in its own right, but SC goes out of its way to then treat them the same when listing albums, so both get grouped correctly under the ALBUMARTIST when browsing albums. The difference, and the apparent reason that the artists from the album marked COMPILATION=0 are being listed under browse artists, is that 'guest' artists from that album are given the role of ARTIST (1) while those from the compilation NULL album are given the role of TRACKARTIST (6). This must be how they're surpressed - simply by not retrieving TRACKARTISTs. Does this make any bloody sense to anyone? -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47297 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
