Case 1: Appears to be working as designed. As you have configured TPE2 to represent album artist, you have album artists and thus the albums are not compilations. The example album would be found as an album under Gorillaz. "Various Artists" is a special artist name provided by SC to hold any compilation albums. As you don't have any, there's no albums listed under that artist. [However, I don't think it should be there if there aren't any compilation albums in your collection. Sounds like a bug].
Case 2: Appears to be working as designed. Configuring TPE2 to represent Band, means you haven't got album artists any more, and thus the albums are detected automatically as compilation albums (because track artists are different). Compilation albums are displayed under an artist called "Various Artists". >WMA VA albums are still not shown. Are you saying you have a problem with WMA VA albums all the time? You didn't mention it in case 1. Case 3: Sounds interesting. I thought we'd assessed that COMPILATION=1 overruled Album Artist, but this sounds like the opposite has occurred. In both cases 1 and 3, you had no compilation albums listed. Case 4: Appears to be working as designed. An ALBUMARTIST tag has been defined for WMA tags. WMA seems to officially support both BAND and ALBUMARTIST tags. The TPE2 setting doesn't apply to WMA tags - it's mp3 id3v2.x only. >1. Set a Compilation=1 on all Various Artist albums (although might not >do anything on WMA files). Not sure why you have come to that conclusion, but maybe I don't understand. It appears that had no effect in Case 3 - as album artist overruled the compilation flag? >2. Set the Band tag on all files except WMA Various Artist albums. You can set Band on WMA Various Artist albums too if you like; will not have any effect on the album other than displaying a band associated with the songs. >Use the Album Artist field instead for these. That's the crucial bit. Thanks for your experimentation and feedback. Phil _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
