Recently upgraded from 7.0.1 to 7.1. Now the order tracks play back in
some comp. albums has changed. Is it due to the much-discussed changes
in VA logic?

Symptom is when I play some comp. albums in my library, the tracks play
back sorted by track artist name. For other comp. albums, the tracks
play back correctly in TRACKNUMBER tag order.

Possibly the -names- of the FLAC track files play a part? I've noticed
that with OK albums, the track filenames are simply "TRACKNUMBER.flac".
Problem albums have track filenames "Various (ARTIST) ~ ALBUM ~
TRACKNUMBER ~ TRACKNAME.flac". It appears that SC is playing back all
the tracks for a particular compilation album in
"-sorted-by-track-filename-" order, rather than obeying TRACKNUMBER
tags. 

Please see attached zip file which contains the exact FLAC tags and
filenames for all tracks on 2 example albums, one that exhibits the
problem and one that doesn't. I currently don't use (and have never
used) the COMPILATION tag, but I never had this problem in the past.

Many users in the forum have resorted to adding the COMPILATION tag to
their collections to sort this out while many other senior members have
advised against it. Do you think the lack of this tag is responsible for
this track playback order issue? Is there a concensual solution?

Thanks, and best regards...
Nick

Platform: Solaris 10 x86
SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0.1 - 19705 @ Wed May 14 19:53:43 PDT 2008 -
solaris - EN - utf8
Perl Version: 5.8.8 i86pc-solaris-64int
Compilation Behaviour option: Group compilation albums together
Music files: All tracks are FLAC, organized as one album per folder
FLAC tags: Please see attached zip file
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