bullgod;291720 Wrote: > Because your solution is already in place > (viz. all tracks in the the album in question have Compilation = 0) > and this does not have the desired effect. > > If this isn't your solution, or I have misunderstood it in some way > then I apologise unreservedly.
It doesn't have an effect because it is only half of the solution. The other half, which you might missed, is that you have to have tag ALBUMARTIST explicitly set. You think you do, but you don't. What you do have is tag BAND that you see in iTunes or Winamp as 'Album Artist'. We have already established that SC scanner doesn't convert more universally accepted BAND to ALBUMARTIST internaly. We also established that it would make sense and it would be nice to make it do it, since 99.9 % of the world rightfuly expects to see their iTunes/Winamp 'Album Artist' behave the same in SC. :) Now, as said earlier, I'm not holding my breath waiting for SD to do something about it (contrary to the fact you believe I'm an optimist), so I'm working on my solution (just like you). I also don't use iTunes and I always review tags in newly ripped tracks. So, my solution is to use mp3tag and add ALBUMARTIST where I think it makes sense. That approach actually has some benefits, since it frees tag BAND to be used for other purposes, like Band or Orchestra, and that helps very much for complex tagging. If you think you problem is complex - think for example Opera Gala. There is an orchestra, conductor, composers, let's say four singers who might sing solo, duets, tercets, or quartet on some tracks. Not all tracks have composers, one might not care for all composers or performers (don't want to see them in artist listings, but still want to be able to search for them and to be able to drill down on their names) ... you get the idea. Took me a year to figure out how to go about stuff like that, and there are still ways to go. My grudge with SD is that most of those things are not documented, or even worse, the existing docs are poor and missleading. For example, I only learned about ALBUMARTIST internal tag and its importance in prior discussion with Snarly. Now, I'm even afraid they will change things to meet BAND with ALBUMARTIST and break what I already have (pesimist, you see):) regards, K -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAj2aPdQnk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvMNuuFSvN0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDRhRv4q_SI http://youtube.com/watch?v=nlrpe8Ig5m8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=dC9tGlwPln8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46093 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
