>i have a couple thousand albums at least, no comp tags of any kind, all >mp3s, and i use the treat TPE2 as album artist setting. > Whether a user uses TPE2 (Band) or Album Artist is irrelevant to this conversation. The outcome is that if there is an Album Artist defined, compilation tags should not be necessary.
>SC gets every last one of them right. prior to 8001 it didn't use TPE2 >for sorting at all, now it does. > Not strictly correct, which may confuse people, but I know what you mean. You use TPE2 to get Album Artist info in the SqueezeCenter library. From thereon (eg. when discussing browsing the library), you should discuss it as Album Artist. i.e. Before the option to read TPE2 as Album Artist, you didn't have album artist information, and thus albums didn't group/sort properly. Now SC reads TPE2 from files and puts it into the library as Album Artist, and thus grouping/sorting works correctly. SC does not group/sort by TPE2. >all it used to do was by option *denote* an album as being by the TPE2 tag. > Not quite right: it used to add the TPE2 value as a Band to the *song* (not album), which is just another contributor for the song (like artist). i.e. There wasn't an album artist, so it didn't do grouping/sorting as you would expect. >i don't see a need for SC to know if an album is a comp if i use the TPE2 >field. > The scanner doesn't need to read a Compilation tag if an album artist is defined (either Album Artist, or TPE2). >(i also always browse in SC by Home -> Albums which is thn done as >Artist, year, album as artwork. artist means 'album artist' in this case. > Actually, "artist" will be "album artist" if there is one defined for the album, otherwise "artist". This is either worked out at scan time, or on the fly (not sure how the internals work exactly). BTW, it's important to remember that "album artist" (Album Artist or TPE2 tag) is applied to *songs*. i.e. album artist is a property of a song, not an album, and thus the album artist for an album is worked out from the album artist property existing on all songs on an album. So, to sum it up, if you need album artist on an album, apply the same album artist value to every song on the album. >so where/what exactly is this bug you're talking about? Having Compilation=0 overrides album artist (SC library will not store an album artist role). Phil _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
