Chris This gets stranger and stranger - I can see you've done some careful testing there, but I'm getting quite different results. Can you confirm which server version you are using? I'm using 6.2.2 - 5549 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
My results: (1) create a completely empty library. Remove the sql file from cache. Put in one compilation album. Rescan. Album has Artist/Title/Genre/Tracknum/Year tags. i.e. NO Compilation tag. FLAC, ripped and tagged using EAC, tags checked with mp3tag (show all tags). "Group Compilation Albums together" is set, I've not changed the default "Various Artists" special name. (2) at this point the library shows "1 album with 22 songs by 0 artists". Browse Albums shows the album. Browse Artists gives an empty list. (3) add a normal album to the library. Now shows "2 albums with 32 songs by 1 artist". Browse Albums shows both albums. Browse Artists shows Various Artists (leads to the one compilation album) and also the artist for the normal album. So, I can confirm the minor bug that the web interface doesn't list Various Artists unless there is also a normal artist to show. I've created http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2934 - you can follow any discussion or news by registering your email address there. But I can't confirm the requirement to have "Compilation" tag set. I'm sure I recall earlier discussions where it was said that slimserver is being smart enough to look for albums where there are different artists being named, which should mean that "Compilation" is unnecessary. And, for clarity, let's note that changing the default "Various Artists" special name is ONLY necessary if any of your albums have been tagged with Various Artists in the Artist field: the clean method is to have Artist tagged correctly for every song. Still puzzled. Ceejay. -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20595 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
