The thing I like about actually using an ALBUMARTIST for compilations is that I can control where those albums end up when albums are sorted by artist/album or artist/year/album. Do this by using an ALBUMARTISTSORT tag. They'll still be recognized as compilations and appear under LMS' "Compilations", if you use that browsing mode. So I tag every compilation with:
ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists ALBUMARTISTSORT=000 COMPILATION=1 Make sure you -exclude- the COMPILATION tag for non-compilation albums. Don't add COMPILATION=0 (although I don't recall offhand what issues it causes.) Multi-disc compilations have often caused added headaches if you place individual discs in subfolders, so be sure to test how LMS handles them. For example, if you use a directory structure like: /compilations /.. /Some Album /../../Disc 1 /../../Disc 2 IIRC, the key is to always include DISCNUMBER and TOTALDISCS tags in these files. Or, you can just avoid the issue by placing all tracks from the album in one folder. If you do that, it's advisable to prepend the disc number to the filename to keep them in the correct order in a directory listing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114804 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
