htrd;313894 Wrote: > I scanned this thread and decided it was really long enough without me > adding to it. But, here I am anyway.... > > You've made that statement several times in this thread. I assume the > logic behind your statement is obvious to you, but it leaves me quite > puzzled. Could you give some background please? What tags do you have? > How did you get those tags? Why do those tags seem sensible to you? Why > do you find the current logic ludicrous?
mp3s. no user defined tags. basically ANY TPE1 (artist) mismatch on an album was enough for SC to call an album a VA / comp. at least HALF of what it identified it identified incorrectly. b4 bug 8001 was enacted, this meant all such albums of mine that weren't comps were sorted improperly. as you can see in my last post, i am assuming that even though i have things sorting right currently, SC's still misidentifying some albums as comps that aren't comps (in the SC DB). i am waiting for someone who knows to confirm or deny if thats the case. all my tags came from mainstream sources. i used EAC to rip, but WMP and winamp had roles in setting my tags as well. regardless of how i got my tags, it isn't uncommon in the marketplace to find mismatches in artists for albums that aren't comps. thats just a fact. like i said to phil, majority or not, the numbers are significant. htrd;313894 Wrote: > The current behaviour seems quite logical to me. In views which are > broken down first by artist then by album I can choose to have these > albums (albums with tracks with different artists) listed multiple > times (under each artist) or once (under the "Various Artists" > umbrella). > > (The "guest artists" scenario described by Philip Meyer allows me to > have it listed once, under the primary artist. Thats even better for > those who can be bothered to set the funny tags.) i am not talking about those options or views. all i am talking about is how SC determines, (its logic), at the time an album is scanned, if it is, or is not, a VA/comp album. this is an attribute in the SC DB. i am assuming it still gets set even if i treat TPE2 tags as album artist. htrd;313894 Wrote: > I believe these are synonymous: > > 1. any album with a TPE1 mismatch > 2. an album with tracks with different artists > 3. an album with "various artists" they are not. you can have an album with TPE1 mismatches that is not a various artists album. it is not a compilation just b/c one track has a mismatch. for bug 8001, i posted 4 billy joel files to reproduce the issue. one track on his box set had him and ray charles on it. that was enough to have SC call it a comp, AND sort it under VA. since bug 8001 is now resolved, it sorts properly, (by enabling the new option). but as to whther or not it gets classiified as a comp, well, afaik it does and this classification is mistaken. (i think jjzolx like to give sinatra's duets as a similar example. clearly its got a lot of various artists on every track, but its a sinatra album and NOT a compilation) -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.1beta - Win XP Pro SP3 - 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=47297 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
