i was unclear, mainly because i didn't know you could have 'artist' as a field in the tag listed twice, as you do.
in my example all through this thread, my fields were like this: SS sorting it in the WRONG place: ALBUM=BJ Box Set CD3 ARTIST=Billy Joel/Ray Charles ALBUMARTIST=Billy Joel SS sorting it in the RIGHT place: ALBUM=BJ Box Set CD3 ARTIST=Billy Joel ALBUMARTIST=Billy Joel/Ray Charles this is b/c, imo, SS uses comparisons of other tracks in the same folder via their tpe1 field to determine if its a comp or not. if SS thinks an album is a comp, (determined by tpe1) then it will put it under various artists REGARDLESS of what you set tpe2 to. more below: JJZolx;232457 Wrote: > It appears to use ALBUMARTIST over ARTIST, when available. no, i'll explain why i think u got these results: JJZolx;232457 Wrote: > 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'. i think it sorted under chet, b.c it used the last entry of artist to sort. if the last entry had been mark k, i think it would have used that instead. SS seems to use the entry a lot, when 'guessing' at what it should do. JJZolx;232457 Wrote: > After retagging, it shows up sorted under Mark Knopfler and the artist > displayed is now just 'Mark Knopfler'. maybe thats b/c mark k is now the last artist related entry... but either way this situation is somewhat different from what i am describing. do any of the files for this CD have differing tpe1 tags? that takes precedence. and do you use compilation tags? JJZolx;232457 Wrote: > 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. as i mentioned, i think its the last entry used. JJZolx;232457 Wrote: > 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. no doubt that album artist is always used for the byline when presnt, but as i mentioned, it is NOT always used for sorting. if it is ever used for sorting, it is only used for sorting when all the tpe1 fields agree with each other in a given folder. JJZolx;232457 Wrote: > 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 think i addressed this in both this post, and the previous post. JJZolx;232457 Wrote: > 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. i have no idea, and i'd rather get SS to be better, rather than have me have to manually add yet another field to tags. thx. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.5 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 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
