I have many cases where there are multiple artists I want to credit for a single track. Where Pollini plays a Beethoven sonata, I would like to credit both. Often the same group of artists should be credited for all tracks of an album, but this is not always the case.
I am using ID3v2.3 tags for mp3 files, and WMA tags for WMA files. The vast majority of my files are WMA. Up to now, I have been creating multiple tags to credit multiple artists, so for the album above, two Artist tags, one for Beethoven and one for Pollini. I have two issues. First, I have read remarks in the Wikis and this forum to the effect that it is inadvisable to use multiple tags of the same type. But the main reason given seems to be that it bolluxes up the interpretation of the SortOrder tag. However, I can't get the SortOrder tag to work with mulitple artists anyway, when using a single tag and putting in multiple artists with a separator. (That is, "Artist = Ludwig van Beethoven;Maurizio Pollini" and "ArtistSortOrder = Beethoven, Ludwig van;Pollini, Maurizio" results in Beethoven and Pollini being listed separately in the Artists list but under L and M, not B and P.) Maybe this is due to my using WMA tags, since this system has been reported to work by others. Besides, SortOrder is not supported for AlbumArtist or Composer, so it seems to be of limited value, attractive as it is otherwise. So the question is, if the above is right, whether there's any other reason to avoid multiple tags of the same type. I've done a lot of it already! Which would have to be reversed. And it's worked very well. Second, as cdmackay complained in a post of 2009-03-18, however you credit multiple artists, only one is displayed in the controller when a song is playing. Of course, you can just select the song in the controller to see a detailed listing of all artists, but it would be nice if the Now Playing screen would list all artists, ditto for the browse list of albums. Is there any way to make the controller do this (as SC does)? Is there a solution for this problem? -- dpotts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dpotts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62878 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
