Phil (and Mr. Sinatra), Thanks for your feedback and examples. I've been playing around with Squeezebox and the Server and messing a bit with my tags in the process.
I am aware of the Various Artists "Bug", but I am finding a few work arounds, which may not be ideal but seem to quickly utilize what I am looking for if I want it. The first is that I setup a slightly different name for the compilations version of Various Artists (e.g -Various Artists-). However, as Phil noted and I noticed, unless an album is actually tagged as a compilation (all my tracks have an "album artist" tag), you won't see all the track artists. I set the Compilation=1 tag on my true compilation albums, and everything works fine and all the track artists show up for those albums, and those albums show up under what I call the "correct Album Artist"... e.g. my John Lennon (Tribute) as I earlier discussed or other Album Artists as needed, and they show up under -Various Artists-. I am considering just blatantly labeling all albums as compilations although that would mean my -Various Artists- menu item would end up with all my albums, and I imagine that could be a mess.... See below I like Mr. Sinatra do mostly use "Album Artist" more for sorting as most software and devices can't handle the ArtistSort and similar sort tags (or they didn't when I originally tried to clean up my tags). My library is at around 20,000 tracks, so Album Artist also helped clean up my artist listing in various software. In the time since I cleaned up my ID3 tags, I've become a fan of jazz so album artist has allowed me to identify all Miles Davis related albums under his name while using track artists to more specifically identify all versions of Miles Davis's bands as needed (e.g. "Miles Davis Quartet". If I ever find that I can make Media Monkey respect the "Band" tag for what it is, I might utilize that tag to further separate band members etc as it should be, but for now it will have to be redundant with the separate "Album Artist" tag I set up for the squeezebox. The one thing I like about what Phil showed in his Custombrowse setup is that I can probably do everything I want there, and perhaps I don't need to worry about what the Compilation is set as. I am also hopeful that I can use the Custombrowse and Customscan to add some other features I use elsewhere like Subgenres. I do appreciate all the help and discussion here. I am really liking the device and software, and while it may not be perfect (nothing is), it is definitely manageable. At the least, the software always shows me flaws I never noticed in my tagging. In this case, I find that MediaMonkey while supposedly handling multiple-genres, never really tags separate genre fields, so I'll now have to go back through with MP3tag and separate my semi-colon separated genre fields into separate genre fields as needed. How fun it all is... Thanks again for all the help. -- 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
