tillster;332683 Wrote: > Newbie here, so sorry for being a div > > To avoid the mass invasion of my *artists* menu I selected "group > compilation albums together" in the music library settings > > However, this now seems to have made some of my 'normal albums' into > 'various artist' albums > > For example, a zero 7 album that has a few guests playing on it has > become a various artists album, due to - I suppose - the slight > difference in artists per song, i.e. zero 7 featuring mickey mouse > > Is there anything I can do to return them to their normal state, > without having every single artist from compilation cd's > > Sorry for the long winded question. Hope it makes sense > > I'm using SB Duet / SC 7.1 / Windows XP
A few quick things first. It is helpful to read the WIKI on tagging on the Slim Devices site as well as other sites that deal with MP3 Tags. The reason they are now various is because there are various artists in the tags. What happened was what you asked SqueezeCenter to do, so it just did it. The songs are probably listed now under both Zero 7 and Mickey Mouse, but it is still just one file on your hard drive. The Controller and SqueezeCenter just grabbed the other artists listed on the as you asked it to. There are two main ways to deal with this. In SqueezeCenter, adjust the settings until you get the displayed results you are looking for. The other way is to change the way you think about music and the way you go about tagging muisc while you're ripping it (if this is your choice then you can use MP3TAG or dBpowerAmp to "fix" the tags of already ripped CDs). The change is maining about thinking of you music as artists and composers instead of CDs. Can you still play just a whole CD, sure you can, but the key is to stop thinking of all your music as a collection of CDs and start thinking of it as a collection of songs by specific artists. Remember why you bought the Duet, to free up your music and get away from having to find, open, insert, and play a CD. If this is why you bought a Duet, read the tagging WIKIs, then PM me and I'll give you some examples of how proper tagging during the ripping process can make you music very manageable just by using SqueezeCenter and a good ripping program. A Forum member gave me a great suggestion the other day on how to fix my Tom Petty problem. I now put Tom Petty in the Artist tag for all his albums no matter solo or group. I use the Artist/Album tag to separate whether it is Tom Petty solo, Heart Breakers, or Mudcrutch. Doing this causes all the albums to show up under Tom Petty on the Controller, but also has HB and MC showing up also if I want to go directly to them without scrolling down all the Tom Petty. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Bedroom: SB3, NAD C370, Thiel 2.3 Home Office: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, VSM-1 Sigs Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51531 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
