In order to try to lay out clearly what my problem is, Ive played with a small library (195 tracks) of various compilations and albums with guest artists from my collection. These are either mp3 or WMA lossless files. All tagging done in mp3tag. Version 7.2.1 of SqueezeCentre.
To start with I peeled down the tags to what I have as standard in my library. Heres a sample from one of the mp3 albums: TALB Gorillaz TPE1 Gorillaz;Ibrahim Ferrer TPE2 Gorillaz TBPM 57 TCOM Damon Albarn;Lazaro Villa TCON Rock TPUB Virgin TIT2 Latin Simone TRCK 12 TDRC 2001 TXXX four or five tags that have something to do with replay gain APIC Assume this is something to do with album art? Ive looked in the file with a hex editor to check they have the tags as above. I cant do that for the WMA files. Now I set the library options in SC. I dont have Composer or Conductor or Band in my Artist tags, so have left those unchecked. 1. To start with I have Group Compilation Albums Together List Albums by All Artists for that Album Treat TPE2 MP3 Tag as Album Artist Do a complete rescan and Browse Artists The six Album Artists in the library appear. Browsing five of them, everything looks peachy. The Track Artists TPE1 are correctly identified and labelled. However, Various Artists appears as an artist to browse (although not duplicated at the top of the tree), but there are no albums shown underneath it. 2. I now set Group Compilation Albums Together List Albums by All Artists for that Album Treat TPE2 MP3 Tag as Band Do a complete rescan and Browse Artists Now Various Artists appears twice (at the top of the tree and in its alphabetical place). However, Gorillaz do not appear their albums are listed under Various Artists. They are indicated as Compilations and (using the above track as an example) Artist (not Track Artist) is Damon Albarn, Ibrahim Ferrer and Band/Orchestra is shown as Gorillaz. WMA VA albums are still not shown. 3. I now set Group Compilation Albums Together List Albums by All Artists for that Album Treat TPE2 MP3 Tag as Album Artist (as per 1) but I tag each track on a Various Artists album with a Compilation = 1 tag. Do a complete rescan and Browse Artists Now Various Artists appears twice (at the top of the tree and in its alphabetical place) and Gorillaz appear as an Artist their albums are NOT listed under Various Artists. WMA VA albums are still not shown although I have noticed that a VA album with three mp3 tracks and one WMA track is showing all four tracks. 4. I now leave the settings alone Group Compilation Albums Together List Albums by All Artists for that Album Treat TPE2 MP3 Tag as Album Artist But I delete the BAND tag in the WMA VA albums. I instead add an ALBUMARTIST tag of Various Artists Do a complete rescan and Browse Artists Now Various Artists appears once (at the top of the tree) and everything seems peachy. WMA VA albums are shown. All is right with the world. Sorry if this has been long-winded, but it should be replicable. My conclusions are: 1. Set a Compilation=1 on all Various Artist albums (although might not do anything on WMA files). 2. Set the Band tag on all files except WMA Various Artist albums. Use the Album Artist field instead for these. Group Compilation Albums Together List Albums by All Artists for that Album Treat TPE2 MP3 Tag as Album Artist Maybe the problem is with mp3tag, maybe its a weakness in WMA files. Whatever, its taken me a lot of hassle to get to this stage Id be interested if 1-4 act as expected as in many of them tracks are just plain missing. Feel free to move this post somewhere else if it makes following this thread easier, or format it nicely, or ignore it altogether. I had to do this exercise anyway to get my thoughts straight(ish). S. -- InTheBath ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InTheBath's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53822
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