retro80s wrote: > I'm trying to group albums together that have multiple volumes that have > an AlbumArtist of "Various Artists", however I'd like to be able to see > all of those albums in one view as a collection of multiple volumes. > > For example, there are many volumes to "Billboard Top Hits", "Now That's > What I Call Music", "Your Hit Parade", "Richard Blade's Flashback > Favorites", etc. > > I'd like to be able to view all of the albums that are part of that > "Volume Collection" together. What's the best way to tag songs to be > part of a "larger" collection? > > Would it be best to tag AlbumArtist for multiple volume collections like > the following? > > "Various Artists;Billboard Top Hits" > "Various Artists;Now That's What I Call Music" > "Various Artists;Your Hit Parade" > "Various Artists;Richard Blade's Flashback Favorites" > > ...etc, etc, etc? > > What is your best way to group muliple-volume-collections?
you can use the albumartist tag for that, i see np doing so. i use the AA tag as my default sort tag. most times the AA tag equals the artist tag, (not for guest artists obviously), but otherwise its just a way to group tracks together and sort a disc into an albumartist list. i use "Various Artists" but i also use "Soundtrack (TV)" and "Soundtrack (Film)" or Film Score, or "Comedy" or whatever suits my purposes to get the disc to sort where i want it to. my albumartist list is basically A to Z by band or artist name, but otherwise the comp terms i use i think of as kind of similar to the categories you might find in a sam goody or tower records... again, i just use the term that will place the material where i would expect to find it in the bug A to Z list. (i don't use dedicated sort tags b/c they aren't well supported by other apps and devices) d6jg wrote: > Generally speaking it is best to leave AlbumArtist blank when tagging > compilations. totally disagree. i find LMS and all other software works best if you have an AA tag on everything. then, if you want LMS to know such and such is a comp, simply add an explicit comp=1 tag. d6jg wrote: > LMS is designed to note that there are multiple different track artists > and will treat it as a compilation which will appear under whatever you > told it to under Settings / My Music e.g. Various Artists and also under > "Compilations" yes, LMS will classify any artist mismatch that lacks an AA tag as a comp, that is true. its also completely arbitrary and inaccurate. not every artist mismatch lacking an AA tag is indeed a comp in reality. it also means the OP will have all their examples under one AA heading, which doesn't sound to me like what he wants. d6jg wrote: > There is a "Compilation" tag which LMS will read during scan but again > general advice is not to use it. what? thats the first i ever heard that. what is wrong with an explicit comp=1 tag IF you want to ID something as a comp? d6jg wrote: > If you actually tag AlbumArtist as Various Artists it will list under > "Various Artists" but not under Compilations. nasty bugs with LMS, including ole 9523. but you can avoid all that nastiness and string conflict by assigning everything an AA tag, using a comp=1 tag where you want, and changing the (stupid) default setting in LMS to use a string term that isn't in your files tags, (meaning, change the LMS term of "Various Artists" for comps to anything else that hopefully isn't anywhere in your tags, like maybe "-Various Artists-" see links in my sig below for more info. using: win7 64 + lms 7.9 & duet & ipads w/the logitech app, and ipeng on an ipod http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/various_artists_logic & http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/compilations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BJW's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110800 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
