ego1138;171497 Wrote: > The one thing that I didn't expect, is that "Duets" is ALSO showing up > under "Various Artists". Which is NOT what I was looking for. > Although technically it IS a "Various Artists" album, I don't think > anyone would really categorize it that way. > > So what I'm thinking is, is using the COMPILATION tag to see if I can > somehow get around that, but, I'm not very familiar with the tag, and > it seems like what few posts I can find on it, it seems to cause all > sorts of wacky problems. > > So, does anyone else have any advice on this one?
Without explicitly telling SlimServer that this is _not_ a compilation (by using COMPILATION=0 on Flac files) it will see this album as a compilation and file it with Various Artists. There are a numbers of bugs filed where people feel that having an explicit ALBUMARTIST (or BAND, since they seem to be roughly equivalent in SlimServer) for the album should preclude it from being recognized as a compilation. I think that's a valid line of reasoning. So, use COMPILATION=0 on your Flac files for this album to override SlimServer's current behavior. I tag every track in my library with either COMPILATION=0 or 1, but it should only really be necessary on these albums where you want to circumvent SlimServer's normal behavior. If you're trying to do the same with mp3 files, though, it's not quite as simple. The mp3 counterpart to the COMPILATION tag is the TCMP tag, which is an iTunes invention. The trouble with it is that iTunes either adds the TCMP tag when it tags an album as a compilation or it _drops_ the tag altogether when it's not. You can't explicitly say "this is not a compilation". The tagger that I use, Mp3tag, refuses to write a TCMP frame with a value of 0. I'm not even certain how SlimServer would interpret this - it too may treat the very presence of the tag as saying "this is a compilation". There is a workaround, though - SlimServer seems to read flac-style tag names from TXXX (user defined) frames in id3v2. So you can use a TXXX of COMPILATION=0 frame if you tagger can create one - Mp3tag does this easily when you use COMPILATION=0 in an id3v2 tag. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31731 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
