You got my vote... :-) I guess I should try a small subset of my music collection with maybe 1 or 2 multi-disc albums and 1 or 2 "various artists" albums. Now it takes too long to go change everything (even if Mp3tag is good) and then rescan the whole database.
Last time I tried to use the multi-disc album, I set the title to the same thing for each disk, numbered all my tracks starting at 1 for each disk and then I used tags "disc" of "discc" to identify the order of the discs. This did not work, I got all of them mixed up with multiple tracks #1, #1, #1, #2, #2, etc... For the various artists albums, I tried setting the artist field to each individual artist (my albums are organised by folder with names of '%artist% - %album%' I don't remember what it did but it did not work correctly. So I moved the individual artist to the performer field and hard-coded the artist field to "Various Artists". What I would like to do is to avoid having thousands of artists with albums of 1 song. I would like to have a way to search the "album artist" field and the "song artist (performer)" field. I've been following the classical music thread on tagging and it looks real interesting. My needs are modest though, I'd just like to be able to define in slimserver which fields to search on (such as album, artist, performer, conductor, year, genre, language, etc...) And about the genre issue, there's got to be a better way to use this... I use separate genres with a ';' in between but I end up with hundreds of genres to the point that it becomes unuseable. I've been searching the allmusic.com site and they use genre and style and a few other descriptors (such as mood IIRC) which would help alot in organising interesting playlists. Also, I've got too many albums listed as "rock", "pop" or "jazz" which seems to be way too general to use and hope that the music I select by genre only goes well together... Ah the dilemma of having too much music to listen to... ;-) Daniel -- dborn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
