Hello all. I am trying to find my way through the various ID3 and Vorbis comments and I am a bit dazed and confused, so some help from you will be appreciated.
My digital collection of about 3,000 albums is almost evenly split in high bitrate MP3 and FLAC, with a relatively small number of albums in OGG. Until now, I was under the impression that they were fairly well-tagged (I've been using iTunes for MP3 files and Tag & Rename or Foobar for FLAC). Now, after using SB3 and SS for a couple of months, I realize that tagging is a bit more complicated than I thought, especially when it comes to the way that SlimServer responds to various types of tags (ID3, Vorbis comments etc). I basically want to go through my tagging and ensure that the tags I use are correctly 'understood' and used by SlimServer - and taht before I undertake the task of ripping the rest of my CD collection). I checked various tagging forums (including this one) and also the Slim wiki for the table of tags that SlimServer uses, but still I am left with some queries and I hope some of you could help. Summarizing: - What's the different between <ALBUMARTIST> and <ALBUM ARTIST>, if any? To which field in ID3 do they correspond? - Does SlimServer understand/make use of <ALBUMARTIST> or <ALBUM ARTIST>? Or, is it simply the <ARTIST> tag that is taken into account? I see no instance of <ALBUMARTIST> or <ALBUM ARTIST> in the SS wiki, but this may be outdated (I am using 6.5.4. build). - I saw that <ARTISTSORT> is interpreted by SS. Does it prevail in sorting? I will give a realistic example (as occurred in my database) and hope there'll be some answer. My collection is mostly jazz (or, at least this is the most intriguing part to tag, sort etc.). Taking Thelonious Monk as an example, we have the following album situations: - albums by Thelonious Monk solo - albums by Thelonious Monk Trio - albums by Thelonious Monk Quartet - albums by Thelonious Monk and... (John Coltrane, Gerry Mulligan etc), where Monk is the prevailing artist. ,and so it goes. I'd like to have them all gathered under Thelonious Monk name in artist view, sorted as (Monk, Thelonious) (that is under "M"), but still be able to see the information of the specific ensemble when in Album View. Therefore, I have <ARTISTSORT> set to Monk, Thelonious for all these situations. Still, if the <ALBUM ARTIST> is set to anything different (say to "Thelonious Monk Quartet"), then on the Artists screen of SS I get both Thelonious Monk & Thelonious Monk Quartet, and so the albums are split. Does anyone have an insight of how such situations are met? Thanks in advance, Yiannis -- Yiannis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yiannis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12643 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38873 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
