garym;564216 Wrote: > I'll tell you what I do with FLACs (that works). Search this forum for > COMPILATION and you'll find more than you want to know. SbS can use > logic such as different album artist from track artist, etc. to guess > about compilations. But I prefer the approach I suggest below. > > > > For my compilation albums, I have COMPILATION = 1. Otherwise the > COMPILATION tag is empty (or doesn't even exist). You do NOT need a > value of "0". On my compilation albums I have albumartist as "Various > Artists" but on non-compilations, albumartist is empty. MP3TAG is a > great program for powerful tag editing (including FLAC tags). > > Thanks - I will follow your recommendation here. I'm already using > MP3TAG it's excellent for what I need > > It can (and does). But it can also use its other logic (which I don't > use since I use compilation tags). This choice is irrelevant for > albums that SbS doesn't think is a compilation. > > I'm at a loss to understand why Logitech/Slim doesn't explain the logic > they are applying. It would certainly save us all a lot of time! No > way I would know that SBS is doing any of this - and apparently SBS > does this no matter which file format you use. > > This has more to do with whether you want the albums listed by artist > or by album artist (or band, which can sometimes be interpreted as > album artist). With regard to "b" I think it will use either band or > albumartist. But can't recall on my own files. Best to just experiment > a bit with your own files. > > > > not sure on this one. > > p.s. I've learned to just experiment with all my own various options to > get what works best for me. I have my main SbS with 60,000+ files. But I > also run a SbS on my laptop with only a handful of files. This way I can > play around with tags, etc. and then scan quickly to test how SbS deals > with certain option combinations. And as mentioned, mp3tag is your > friend when it comes to tagging. You can easily create one tag from > another field, create new tags/fields, etc.
Thanks very much for your valuable advice. -- SlimTrigger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SlimTrigger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19278 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80683 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
