Philip Meyer;356463 Wrote: > 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]. Note that I do have compilation albums, they just aren't appearing. I think the VA listing wasn't at the top of the list so is probably not SC's special VA, but rather a consequence of me having Band set as Various Artists on my compilations. Still don't understand why the albums didn't show up though.
Philip Meyer;356463 Wrote: > 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. No compilations turned up in Case 1. No mp3 comps and no WMA comps. in case 2 I just have the mp3 comps. Philip Meyer;356463 Wrote: > 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. Yep. And every time I try to sort it, I'm always baffled by the behaviour. Having written it down and progressed through a bit more logically has helped though. Philip Meyer;356463 Wrote: > 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. Then maybe everythings fine? I don't understand why things work as they do but I've now got what I need to get albums treated pretty consistently by SqueezeCentre. It does mean I have to follow the steps below: Philip Meyer;356463 Wrote: > > >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? The only difference between Case 1 and Case 3 was setting this flag. In Case 1 I had no comps listed. In Case 3 I'm only missing the WMA comps. So this flag is needed to make my mp3 comps show up. Philip Meyer;356463 Wrote: > > >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. It would be nice to just use Band for consistency, but I can live with this. I'm trying to keep my tags down to what I want and strip out anything extraenous to prevent problems like this reoccuring. It's not a biggy though. Just need to remember, whenever I rip a comp into WMA format I have to set an extra tag. My tagging is fairly sorted now. I have two problems left which are minor and will have to wait whilst I appreciate my music rather then hunching over a PC pi$$ing about with tags. Thanks for all your help. I hope my notes a couple of messages back may help others? S. -- InTheBath ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InTheBath's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53822 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
