ego1138;170999 Wrote: > Hmmm, okay, but then if you're not using ARTISTSORT tags when there are > multiple artists, what happens in your setup then when you have an > album like Frank Sinatra's Duets then, but you also just have a regular > Frank Sinatra album as well. > > Are you putting ARTISTSORT in the solo Frank album? > > How does SlimServer show you these two albums then when Duets doesn't > have any sorting then, unlike your solo Frank album? > > And do you have "Frank Sinatra" showing up under the S's in SS? > > That's what I'm trying to accomplish with the BAND tag. > > I want Duets to show up as a "Frank Sinatra" album (instead of Various > Artists), I want it under "S" as far as being sorted, but I want to see > the tracks as "Frank Sinatra;Luther Vandross", "Frank Sinatra;Bono", > etc.
With multiple ARTIST tags and multiple ARTISTSORT tags, there's no guarantee that the correct ARTISTSORT will match up with the right ARTIST. Sometimes they will be, and other have reported that they've had good luck doing this. It will depend a bit on how your tagging software behaves, though; whether you can trust the order that the tags will be saved within the file. Yes, I rely on the ARTISTSORT tags added to solo Frank Sinatra albums (or tracks) elsewhere in the library and he shows up under 'S'. SlimServer is smart enough not to overwrite a defined ARTISTSORT unless ARTISTSORT <> ARTIST. In the 'Duets' album some of those other artists don't appear elsewhere in the library, so I'm stuck with some of them sorting on first name. One thing to note - You can use the old separator method in Flac tags (although that's not really the way Flac files were intended to be tagged) and then you can safely use ARTISTSORT tags since the order won't be ambiguous. ARTIST=Frank Sinatra;Luther Vandross ARTISTSORT=Sinatra, Frank;Vandross, Luther -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31731 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
