all the major apps not only treat TPE2 as albumartist, but they fill it in when ripping or autotagging as well from online DB sources, (thereby making SBS VA logic moot).
guest artists do NOT belong in the "album artist" field. (a long time ago, this all confused the hell out of me, as i could envision it either way; ie. the way it is today, OR meaning the "artist on the album" [for that track]. but regardless of how i could see it in theory, the de facto standard already existed and i merely conformed to it). so, for guest artists, i don't get all fancy, i just add them to the single TPE1/artist field, and call it a day. no multiple fields, no separator characters. but SBS does support that if you want to go to the trouble, and i suggest you check out mp3ag which helps to show just what is going on in a tag. and obviously i use TPE2 to get the whole album listed/sorted under the *one* artist or category i want it under. SBS also has itunes integration, which i don't use, and don't really advocate either, but you might want to check it out. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.5b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 40k+ mp3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77355 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
