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SilverRS8;281512 Wrote: > Often those problems are inconsistent tag related. Can you maybe post a > screenshot from a tagging application of the tracks of the albums you > used giving the problems? > > Frank Hi, here is the result: 1. Multiple artists (image 1): when an album (and all its tracks) has multiple artists, ACC generates tracks replicated for each artist. You can have multiple artist in a album dividing the artist by a ";" in the artists field. (To activate the multiple artist, you have to go into: SC7 / Settings / Music Library and write ";" in the "Separator for Multiple Items" field.) [SqueezeCenter can extract multiple artist, album titles and genres from the tags inside your music files. If SqueezeCenter finds any of the words or characters below in your tags, it will create individual listings for each item. For example, if you put a semicolon in the list below, a song with an artist tag of "J. S. Bach;Michael Tilson Thomas" will appear in the artists area for both "J. S. Bach" and "Michael Tilson Thomas". Changing this setting will start a rescan of your music library.] 2. Album with the same name (image 2): if two album have the same name (for example: "Symphonie Fantastique"), ACC creates one cover for each track of the album and for every occurence of the same album name. For example if there are two albums with the same name with 5 tracks each, ACC will create 10 covers with one track each. 3. Multiple genres (image 3): when an album has multiple genres (divided by a ";") ACC generates two album covers for each track. In my opinion this happens because ACC reads 2 albums with the same name from the library - same situation of point 2 above. 4. sorting by Genre (image 4): I found that if the Artist is "Various Artists" (written by myself not by SC7) the albums are not sorted correctly by genre but are put at the end of the list in alphabetical order. Pictures: 1. In this case the tag Artist is: "Rosemary Clooney; John Pizzarelli; Diana Krall" which actually means 3 artist for this album. In SC7 the 3 artists appear separated. 2. In this case, I have 2 album names that are the same "Symphonie Fantastique". Of course this could easily happen for classical music. 3. In this case, the Genre tag is "Louge; Bossa Nova". The album appears in SC7 under 2 different genres 4. This picture shows that the album with the tag artist = "Various Artists" are at the end of the list and are not sorted by genre as they should. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: 4-sorting.JPG | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4637| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- elite1967 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ elite1967's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15576 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
