Philip Meyer;355593 Wrote: > Initially, when I found some albums that had one guest performer, I > added an album artist tag just for that one song. This is not good > enough - the SC scanner isn't clever enough to realise that an album > artist for a song matching the artists on the other songs. i.e. you > end up with an album that has some songs with artist roles and some > songs with track artist roles. ALL songs need the album artist, such > that all songs have track artist roles, and no artist roles, otherwise > this leads to trouble in some library browsing modes (can't remember > exactly where things go wrong).
i agree with that totally. the last thing i want though, is to try to get SC to be "more clever." its already doing too much automatically that i don't want. you idea is a good one, as an option. Philip Meyer;355593 Wrote: > > >are you saying that if comp=0 that SC will not populate the internal > to > >SC db ALBUMARTIST field if valid data for that field is present in > the > >tag? > > > Yes, apparently so. > > >what about if there is no comp tag, or if it is comp=1? > > > No compilation tag is fine. no comp tag at all would jive with my exp. i can't speak to the other 2 possibilities. Philip Meyer;355593 Wrote: > I assume compilation=1 would also cause skip album artist detection > (would result in artist contributor roles, and no album artist or track > artist roles). > > >if comp=0 truly stops the field from being populated, then i would > >definitely call that a bug. so is that the reality? > Yes. i hope someone can verify that comp=1 does what we think comp=0 does. (comp=0 should be verified by a second party actually) but in any case, a bug is filed. we'll see what comes of it. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53822 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
