MrSinatra;232124 Wrote: > can someone please verify that the way SS works when it organizes music > from a scan, is that it arranges the albums via the "artist" tag, but > when it displays the artist name in gallery view, it uses the > "albumartist" or "band" tag first if available? It appears to use ALBUMARTIST over ARTIST, when available.
Here's an example from a test I just ran (FLAC files, all tracks tagged identically on the album): I had the following album tagged as: ALBUM=Neck and Neck ARTIST=Mark Knoplfler ARTIST=Chet Atkins then I retagged it: ALBUM=Neck and Neck ARTIST=Mark Knoplfler ARTIST=Chet Atkins ALBUMARTIST=Mark Knopfler Tagged the first way, it showed up sorted under Chet Atkins, with the artist displayed as 'Mark Knopfler, Chet Atkins'. After retagging, it shows up sorted under Mark Knopfler and the artist displayed is now just 'Mark Knopfler'. That's pretty much how I'd want it. With two artists but no clear ALBUMARTIST, it's any one's guess which should be used to sort. I suppose SlimServer might sort them into order, then use the first one, or it might be random, or the first one that is read from the file. The effective ALBUMARTIST is 'Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler'. But when there's an explicit ALBUMARTIST, it's used both for sorting and for the artist displayed in the album's byline. > for instance on the billy joel box set, on CD3 there is a track with > both billy joel and ray charles performing together. > > should artist for that track be billy joel, and albumartist be 'billy > joel / ray charles.'? Exactly the opposite. It's a Billy Joel album, so he's the album aritst, but he and Ray are both artists on the track. TITLE=... ARTIST=Billy Joel ARTIST=Ray Charles ALBUMARTIST=Billy Joel > i just switched it to that, to see what SS will do with it now; but b4 > it was reversed, and so SS put the whole CD3 under various artists b/c > of that. It might be required that you have an explicit COMPILATION=0 tag to avoid the album being marked as a compilation. I'm not sure if that's doable with MP3s, or only with FLAC/OGG/APE. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38930 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
