What I'd like to do is have albums done by two or more people, with both those people in the official "artists" field be listed both under the collaboration and under the individual artists. So, for example, if I have an album Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny - Beyond The Missouri Sky and I'd like it to be listed under artists - Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny - Pat Metheny - Charlie Haden
Otherwise, in this example, when I'm browsing by artist, and looking at work done by Pat Metheny, I don't see this one. I'm pretty sure that if I change all my artist fields that contain "X and Y" to "X & Y" or "X, Y, and Z" to "X, Y & Z" and then set the SqueezeCenter "separator chars" to, say ',' and '&', I'd then get my albums listed by the individual - but I won't see the "X & Y" as an artist anymore. Do I have this right? Is there a "standard" way to deal with this issue? Maybe put "X and Y" into the album-artists field, and X;Y in the artists field? Has anyone else dealt with this? I'd love not only to get it working, but working in a standard-enough way that when the next version of SqueezeCenter (or whatever it gets called that time 'round) I still have something that works. Also - if this is a really dumb idea, please feel free to tell me so (although I'd love to know -why- it's dumb). BTW, is there actually a field named "albumartists"? I see mention of it (for instance another thread here SilverRS8 was kind enough to list the different elements that go into the contributors table -and I'd guess that whatever I'd want to do can be done with these fields) Thanks! SilverRS8;255475 Wrote: > ...I found out myself that Artists are stored in the SS Contributors > tabel but each contributor has a role assigned to it. These are : > Artist -> 1 > Composer -> 2 > Conductor -> 3 > Band -> 4 > Album artist -> 5 > Track artist -> 6 > ... > Frank -- bobkoure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42823 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
