I used to have my library and Slimserver set up just how I like it - Compilations were correctly listed under Various Artists and contributing artists did not appear in the main list of Artists. This seems to have changed, now that I've moved to SC 7
The problem occurs when an album with a main artist has some tracks where other artists contribute eg Santana's Supernatural with contributing artists Eric Clapton, Eagle Eye Cherry, Lauryn Hill etc. SC appears to treat this as a compilation, and lists the album under Various Artists, though it does show the Artist as Santana (probably because the Album Artist tag is set to Santana) If I explicitly set the Compilation tag to 0, then SC stops treating it as a compilation. However, it insists on including each contributing artist in the artist list despite the setting of the option List albums by band = Yes (and List Albums by All Artists for that Album = No) and also Group compilation albums together = Yes I'm running SC 7.0.1 19705, on Windows Vista Home Premium. All my music is in FLAC ripped using dbPoweramp (various versions over the last few years) I have just re-ripped Supernatural using the latest dBPoweramp (V13 Reference) and this automatically sets Compilation=0 which is helpful. It also sets Album Artist = Santana But SC still lists all of the contributing artists, which is not what I want. So, how can I achieve the result I want (and used to have)? and Is this a bug or is it the intended behaviour (for some weird reason)? (I know I could delete the contributing artist tags but that would be extra work and defeats the great metadata lookup in dBpoweramp) (I did look at the WIKI page on tags, where it states that SC looks at the BAND tag rather than ALBUM ARTIST in Flac files. Could someone in the know confirm whether this is the case. I did try deleting the Album Artist Tag and setting a Band tag but it made no difference to my problem.) Regards Nigel -- NigelC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NigelC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2101 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47297 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
