chill wrote: > Now that's interesting - that would be different in the case of a cue > sheet. In fact it's the opposite (before my suggested fix above). If > there's no Album Artist, then even if all the track artists are > different, it will not be picked up as a compilation. But add an Album > Artist and it will be. My suggested fix would mean that a single > differing artist, anywhere, would cause it to be classified as a > compilation. I guess that wouldn't suit you! > > So in your opinion, at what point should an 'automatic compilation > detector' decide that it is a compilation? I've seen lots and lots of > code within the various modules that tries to decide when it's a > compilation, so it's clearly a thorny issue. That code seems to kick in > only when the compilation flag is not set by the user. Maybe the > compilation flag in the tags needs a 'definitely not' option, so that > the user can insist, and the automatic checks can be skipped, but I > don't really think that's feasible given that the flag seems to be a > simple boolean in many places, and given how many modules seem to be > involved.
I haven't given it the thought that you and others have, but for me, I'd prefer that if COMPILATION=1 then LMS treats it as a compilation. Otherwise, not a compilation. So it's very specific based on explicit setting. *Home:* VBA2.5 4TB -or- rPi4B-8GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>foobar2000 *The Wild: *rPi3B+/pCP4.0, hifiberry Dac+Pro, 4TB USB (LMS & Squeezelite) *Controllers:* iPhone11 & iPadAir3 (iPeng), CONTROLLER, Material Skin, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win10(64) *Files:* -Ripping-: dbpoweramp > FLAC; -Post-rip-: mp3tag, PerfectTunes, TuneFusion; -Streaming:- Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113834 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
