>What's wrong with putting Various Artists in the Album Artist tag if you >are saying that you want this as the Album Artists name. Nothing really wrong with doing that. It's just a name after all.
However, I don't consider "Various Artists" to be an artist name; it's another miss-use of the tag. I'd never need to set the album artist to "Various Artists" because SqueezeCenter does that automatically when the album is a compilation album. Setting the album artist to "Various Artists" may also lead to inconsistencies in SqueezeCenter, because it displays compilation albums as belonging to an artist called "Various Artists" automatically. Most applications have a mechanism for indicating that an album is a compilation album. Even iTunes/iPod have a Compilation tag, and you can browse compilations. This doesn't involve having an album artist. >I'm not sure what else you would put there if you sort by that. Don't know what you mean exactly. I wouldn't put anything in an album artist tag if there's not meant to be anything there. If all songs are by the same performing artist, there's no need to have an album artist. For a compilation album, songs will have different performing artists, and an album artist is not necessary, because it's a compilation; the software knows there are various artists, and the album is not owned by a single artist name. As I said before, it would be better if there were a Browse Compilations, rather than Browse Artists > Various Artists (or whatever name has been entered in the Music Library setting "When compilation albums are grouped together, they appear under "Various Artists" by default. You can change that name below."). When browsing albums, compilation albums should be displayed by "Various Artists" (or the configered alternative name). If sort by album artist is selected, it should sort by that name too. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
