How exactly does a compilation album get identified? I assume it must be something in the tags but if I look at the tags on a track from a compilation album (FLAC file) using Mp3tag then I don't see anything that looks like a marker for a compilation album. I am setting my compilation albums as compilations by making sure that the "Various Artists" tick box is ticked at the top of EAC when I first rip the album. This all works just fine for me in SlimServer but the real reason I am asking is that I get problems with mp3s as created by Robin Bowes' flac2mp3 script.
I just populated an iPod Mini with MP3s to lend to a friend of mine who is about to go on a flight to Australia and wanted an MP3 player to take with her. 90% of the CDs I put on the iPod were mine and the other 10% were her CDs that I didn't have. For my CDs I already had them in MP3 thanks to Robin's script so I just used iTunes manual update to drag the appropriate files to the iPod. For her CDs I just ripped them and encoded them to AAC using iTunes and then dragged them to the iPod (I'm being very honest so, since those CDs aren't mine, I intend to delete all the AAC files when she returns my iPod and/or buy the CDs for myself). The curious thing is that the one AAC album that is a compilation is correctly recognised as such by the iPod but any of my MP3 albums that are compilations are not recognised as such by the iPod. This makes me wonder if flac2mp3 isn't transcoding some crucial info from the FLAC to the MP3 file. Any ideas what this might be? Is there something I could hand-tag (using mp3tag or similar) onto a converted mp3 file to see if the iPod then recognises it as a compilation? - Julian -- JulianL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JulianL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19599 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
