I just got a squeezebox duet, and the item I am trying to tackle and is confusing me is making all these three items work together the way I would imagine...
All of my music is tagged with Artists and Album Artists (Band) tags using MP3Tag. This came out of my previous media device, which had utilized TwonkyMedia as the server. My Album Artists tags are used to tie albums together as I often have albums with a few multi-artist tracks, tributes (that I often tag my the artist being tributed), and Various Artists for items like Soundtracks. My goal is to be able to browse by artist with the squeezebox and have tracks show up by either their track artist or album artist. What is confusing me right now are two things. On my Various Artists albums, I see now albums under the Various Artists tags. I see this discussed elsewhere, but I really don't want to have to set the compilation tag. Since my tribute albums seem to work, I am guessing I can just change the Various Artists name in the TPE2 field to something different? The other issue I have is that if I want to browse for a song by an artist that doesn't otherwise have an album in the collection, I can't find them. Is this something that should happen? To clarify that point, if I have a soundtrack with songs by the Eagles and the Rolling Stones. I can browse to the Eagles no problem because I have dedicated Rolling Stones albums, but I can't browse to the Rolling Stones because they don't have a full album in my collection. Shouldn't all track artists show up in the artists list? Am I missing something? One other thing I had liked before was that in my previous device, which had serious flaws otherwise, I was able to setup to browse menus. One was by Album Artist and the other by Track Artist. Since I predominantly use the Album Artist, that was useful and tidy, but I was still able to use the track artist when I was looking for that obscure artist or track that I may not remember where it was at. Any help or guidance is appreciated. This program/device seems so fantastic compared to what I had before, so I know there is a lot of customizability that I can't even yet imagine or understand. -- emalvick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73219 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
