I essentially do something in between what you want to do and what Garym says he does.
I have a lot of archives thanks to archive.org and etree.org. In my own efforts to keep things straight, I too have create album artists such as you are trying: Album Artist = Pearl Jam (Live) Artist = Pearl Jam The problem you are having is that by default the squeezebox server will show you both artists and album artists. The only solution to really separate the album artists from the song artists (e.g. Pearl Jam as the song artist from Pearl Jam or Pearl Jam (boot) as the album artist) is to utilize the Custom Browse Plugin and create a custom menu based on Album Artists only. This is what I have done. It made life a lot simpler by only having album artists show up in a menu, and it has made everything more compatible with my portable MP3 player and my desktop player (MediaMonkey). I don't worry about compilation tags, I can set album artists however I want, and I can set track artists appropriately without worrying about an album becoming a "compilation". This is also great for keeping composers out of the mix. Separately, I've setup up a custom browse menu for song artists in the occasional instances where I like to find music by an artist on compilations or as a guest artist. Ultimately, it has allowed me to keep my live/bootleg discs out of the way of the regular releases without completely filtering them out. I do however, find it useful to setup a "genre" tag for these albums that is distinct so that if I am listening to my collection on random with a dynamic playlist, I can set a filter to avoid that genre. -- emalvick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79174 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
