> 1. exactly which tags (other than those in the published list) are > supported?
ALBUMARTIST is really the only thing that stands out. This is the flac/ogg/ape freeform tag. It's also written with a space as ALBUM ARTIST and I believe SlimServer will read both. There's no id3 equivalent to this tag In id3v2 there's a BAND (TPE2) frame. ALBUMARTIST is distinct from BAND, but is treated pretty much the same. > 2. What are valid values to put in the tags i.e the Compilation tag...is > that a string, numeric, binary? It's binary (boolean). I know 0 and 1 work, so I use that. Things like yes/no or true/false may also work. In iTunes id3v2 tags, this frame is TCMP and iTunes either includes the frame with a value of 1, or it excludes it altogether. The free-form flac/ogg/ape tag is COMPILATION and if set to 0 it's thought that it may tell SlimServer to explicitly consider an album a non-compilation. > 3. how does SS treat the tags and in what order? Order should be unimportant. In theory, anyway. There have been quite a few bugs where tag order within a file and file scanning order have affected the end scanning results, but most, maybe even all, of these have been cleared up. > 4. why did SS create a Various as well as a Various Artists entry when I > browsed by Genre:Artist? You probably have an artist named 'Various' in your tags. 'Various Artists' is the default name for the album artist on compilations. If you browse artists in the web interface, you'll see it listed first on each page. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33605 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
