Ok, first of all let's ensure your tags have conformity: in mp3tag select tools/options/tags/mpeg. make sure all options are ticked in the Read area make sure only ID3v2 & ID3v2.4 UTF-8 are selected in the Write options make sure ID3v1, ID3v2 & APE are selected in the Remove options select ok load your entire library and select all tracks by hitting ctrl-a right-click and select tag cut when that's done and all tags are removed, right click and select tag paste
this will rewrite all your mp3 tags as ID3v2.4 UTF-8 and remove any other tag types from your files now, scroll to one of your VA albums you're having issues with and check the extended tags of each track (don't choose your 70 track album) to see if any has more than one ARTIST entry. If this is the case you need to ensure that there is an ALBUMARTIST tag added also, that reads "Various Artists". Without the ALBUMARTIST tag set, the track will appear as a separate album when browing by Album. Once you've done above (and obviously rescanned) the album will appear under Various Artists and also under each of the Artists defined to the tracks that make up the album For albums containing multiple artists, but with only a single Artist tag for each track, you can simply add a COMPILATION=1 tag and SC will treat the album as a Various Artists album For albums that are not Various Artist albums, there is absolutely no harm in adding COMPILATION=0 tags to their tracks. In closing, I have a library containing over 400 compilation albums, many of which have multiple ARTIST tags assigned to a single track, and using the abovementioned logic, coupled with the SC settings I referred to in my earlier post, I don't have a single compilation album appearing more than once. That said, if I browse by Artist, the compilation albums on which the Artist in question appears is also listed - which is how I want it. Browsing by Album, however, only shows a single entry for the Album in question. -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys can be taught to cut code, and world peace is utterly unrealistic... Integrating MusicIP with SqueezeCenter...'*here's how*' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Integrating_MusicIP_with_SqueezeCenter). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49125 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
