Philip Meyer;314035 Wrote: > >we may have discovered a bug with it that also relates to this 8324 > issue, in > >that i can't find my 'TPE2=Various Artists' albums under the > 'Home->Artists' list. > > > I find this a strange thing to do. An album artist of "Various > Artists" seems contradictory.
why is it contradictory? first of all, gracenote and [some] other taggers use this convention. secondly, i use other apps besides SC. i need to group things with them as well. using TPE2 to say "Various Artists" or "Soundtracks" or whatever for albums that actually are compilations seems to make a lot of sense to me, and apparently Gracenote and others as well. surely you don't think thats something i alone do? Philip Meyer;314027 Wrote: > Any artist name being "Various Artists" would be wrong in my opinion. > Is it a compilation, or is it an album with guest performers? would you prefer i had TPE2 say "Compilation"? why would you be against it anyway? Philip Meyer;314027 Wrote: > As SC by default displays compilation albums under "Various Artists", > and the compilation detection code apparently looks for strings > containing "Various Artists", I suggest you try changing your > TPE2="Various Artists" to something else to see if there is only a > problem because of that specific artist name. now you've confused me. just in case i was unclear, i have no albums of any kind by some esoteric avant garde type band who cleverly named themselves "Various Artists." (not a bad idea for a new band name though :) for the purposes of SC, i could just delete the TPE2 tags of "Various Artists" but like i said, SC isn't the only app i use. the SC code only looks for "Various Artists" btw in the tags artist field, TPE1, not in TPE2. the issue remains that even though my TPE2=VA albums are not identified as comps to SC, they can't be found anywhere in the Home->Artists list. is it your contention i should not be able to find them there? shouldn't they be under the SC ALBUMARTIST value? in this case, "Various Artists"? -- 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
