jonheal Wrote: > FWIW, I find this works for me when it comes to classical music: > 1. Insert composer's name in composer field. > 2. Insert orchestra/ensemble name in Band/Orchestra/Album Artist > field. > 4. Insert conductor's name in conducter field (For the hell of it.) > 5. I leave the Artist tag empty unless the piece is performed by an > individual or there is a soloist (i.e. piano music). > 6. Instruct SlimServer to include composers in Browse by Artist.
Jon, yes, I can see how that would work. The only drawback with generally leaving "Artist" blank is if you wanted to use the same files on another player, which could get mighty confused by the absence of an Artist. My music library gets played at different times by slimserver, iTunes, foobar, MusicMagicMixer ... so a common denominator is helpful. My main frustration in the current treatment of "composer" etc is that the browse/search facilities on these are very crude (this was one of the main motivations to putting the enhancement requests in). For example, you can tell slimserver to include Composer or Band in "Artist" searches, but there is no way to distinguish between them, or look for value X of Composer and value Y of Band. I got so frustrated I even got a Perl book out and started to read the code - managed to make a little progress with some of the easier parts of my desired enhancements - but got stuck. Didn't get any help on the Developer's page, so am still stuck. Stil, back to what we have now - perhaps I'll go back to the Wiki and expand some of the suggestions in there, including your approach. Ceejay. -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20776 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
