erland;368455 Wrote: > Now, the let's also look at the meaning of "Various Artists". To me > various artists means that there is more than a single artist used on > the album and you can't say that the album belongs to exactly one of > the artists.
agreed. thats also pretty much my definition of a compilation. erland;368455 Wrote: > In SqueezeCenter there are two main alternatives to tag artists: > - ARTIST: Artist on a specific track > - ALBUM ARTIST: Provide information to help SqueezeCenter to know that > the album really belong to ONE of the artists on the album. > > So what does SqueezeCenter do ? > - If more than one ARTIST exists, it indicates that the album is a > "Various Artists" album yes, and i don't think it should do that non-optionally. getting called a comp has lots of ramifications in SC, that users don't necessarily want, nor want to have to do additional tagging to defeat. i appreciate VERY MUCH your efforts in writing the code to make it an option, but they seemingly refuse to allow it. erland;368455 Wrote: > - If you think you know better and has set an "ALBUM ARTIST" tag it > trusts your knowledge and decides to threat the album as an album that > belongs to the artist tagged with "ALBUM ARTIST" true, but again this has SC specific ramifications not present in other apps. and as i've pointed out, SC has a bug if the string is "Various Artists." erland;368455 Wrote: > - If you think you know better and don't want it to use "ALBUM ARTIST" > and have tagged it with a "COMPILATION" tag it once again trusts your > knowledge and use the "COMPILATION" tag to decide how to threat the > album. right, altho i haven't done that yet, so i don't know how well (or not) it works. the problem is its hard for me to know all the ramifications of using Album Artist data, or comp tags, as far as SC is concerned, b/c often the effects are far reaching, not obvious at first, and not well documented. erland;368455 Wrote: > To me this is not guessing at all, you have several possibilities to > give SqueezeCenter your knowledge and if you don't it applies its own > logic and threat all albums with more than a single artists as a > compilation. the guessing reference was to the VA detection logic, not the other stuff. but even aside from that the issue is complex, b/c maybe i want things that conflict within SC. like maybe i want something ID'd as a comp, but i don't want it segregated to a separate area. or maybe i want to sort by TPE2 but i also want it know to SC as a comp. the vagaries are endless. erland;368455 Wrote: > If the knowledge you provide SqueezeCenter with isn't correct (incorrect > tag values), SqueezeCenter is still going to trust you because it knows > you are the master who knows best. This will of course result in that > it seems like SqueezeCenter does the wrong thing, but it's really just > caused by incorrectly tagged music. i would never argue that SC should handle garbage in well. thats not the issue here. the issue is given reasonable and common tagging does SC handle it well? erland;368455 Wrote: > To make it even more flexible, you can enable the "List compilation > albums under each artist" option in SqueezeCenter settings which will > have the effect that SqueezeCenter doesn't group compilation albums > together under a "Various Artists" menu. thats a good option. -- 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=56078 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
