It seems the definition of a compilation in LMS is uncommon. Wikipedia says: -A compilation album comprises tracks which are compiled from other recordings, usually previously released, but sometimes unreleased. The tracks may be from one or several performers; if from several performers there may be a theme.- In other words, a CD with several sessions from one artist is a compilation. This is also how I understand the term. This is also how many databases interpret the tag.
LMS defines it differently: -If a file has explicit 'COMP=1' tags the server recognizes, it will ALWAYS be classified as a comp/VA album.- according to http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Various_Artists_logic As a result, compilations from one artist are shown under Various Artists. Example: Artist=Miles Davis (for all tracks) Album=Birth of the Cool Album Artist=Miles Davis (for all tracks) Compilation=1 The tags come directly from 'Allmusic.com' (http://www.allmusic.com/album/birth-of-the-cool-mw0000111184), tagged with CDPowerAmp. I think the tags are correct, as this album represents three recording sessions of this particular style Cool Jazz from Miles Davis. This album is shown under -Various Artists- in LMS which in my eyes is wrong. Surprisingly, many best of albums I have are not tagged as compilations by Allmusic.Com. No clue what the logic from AllMusic is. Some of the single-artist albums which I recently tagged that have Compilation=1 are: Johnny Griffin: Big Soul Band; Congregation, Johnny Griffin Sextet, the little Giant. Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Experience. Not affected (no Compilation tag) are Marvin Gaye: Whats Going on. Rolling Stones: 40 Licks. I know I can control displaying compilations with the Group Compilations setting, but if I change this, I would end up with all 1-Hit-Wonders in the list of artists, which is definitely not what I want. I could manually move all affected Compilation tags to a proprietary Compilation_one_artist tag, but is this really necessary? The desired behavior is: If Compilation=1 and Album Artist not empty, then show album under Album Artist and not under Various Artists. Can this be set somehow? Any comments on this behavior? I have searched the forum and found multiple threads regarding compilation but no thread related to this particular issue. --- NAS: QNAP ARM. Streaming: Duet. Controller: Duet, Android Squeezer. Amp: Denon 3310. Speakers: Canton 2xM80 + 2xCM7 + 2xM20 + Sub Nubert. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Web_Engel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65549 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105370
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