paulgj;685201 Wrote: > Was wondering if anyone uses multiple artist tags when tagging an album > that is credited to more than one artist. For example I have an album > "Gateway" on the ECM label that is credited to "John Abercrombie, Dave > Holland, Jack DeJohnette" on the album cover and spine. Other John > Abercombie albums are credited as "John Abercrombie Trio" , "John > Abercrombie Quartet" etc. Various combinations.
As I see it, there are two questions here. How to deal with variations of an artist's bands/combos and how to deal with multiple artists. For the "John Abercrombie Trio" , "John Abercrombie Quartet" question, I would simply tag these all as "John Abercrombie", otherwise you end up with endless variations. Another example is "Tom Petty" vs. "Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers". I tag them both as "Tom Petty". For dealing with multiple, equally credited artists, there are several ways to handle it: ALBUMARTIST=John Abercrombie, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette ARTIST=John Abercrombie ARTIST=Dave Holland ARTIST=Jack DeJohnette or pick one as the 'leader': ALBUMARTIST=John Abercrombie ARTIST=John Abercrombie ARTIST=Dave Holland ARTIST=Jack DeJohnette or pick none and let Squeezebox Server list all three because there is no ALBUMARTIST: ARTIST=John Abercrombie ARTIST=Dave Holland ARTIST=Jack DeJohnette I tend to favor the first approach, which treats the trio as a band. I sometimes use the second if the other players aren't generally known as group leaders or the combo isn't really well recognized as such. Since I always tag every track with an ALBUMARTIST, I never use the third approach. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93134 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
