dgrant;318181 Wrote: 
> So I am trying to get some Christmas albums to show up ONLY under
> Various Artists and only under each artists. There is nothing worse
> than putting on artist X at a party and suddenly killing the mood with
> a surprise Christmas song.
> 
> I followed this wiki page:
> http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/VariousArtistsLogic
> 
> SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0.1 - 19705
> 
> I have set "Group compilation albums together" and "List albums by
> band" in Music Library settings. All my Christmas mp3s have the
> Compilation tag set to 1 and the TPE2 tag
> (Band/orchestra/accompaniment) is set to "Various Artists". I have done
> a complete clear and rescan, and Christmas albums are still showing up
> under each individual artist.
> 
> What else am I missing?

Forget about all those options. I have solved exactly this problem in
another way and it has been working fine for me since version 5 and it
is still working with 7.

I simply add the tag "Album Artist" to all the songs in an album and
assign the value "1. Various Artist" to it. This way SB3 will show
under Browse->Artists->1. Various Artists before any of the other
artists. Also albums categorized this way will onæy appear under the
"1. Various Artists" and not under the respective artists (but you can
still search for songs of a given artist and get all the songs - also
those in teh "various artists"). I prefix it with "1." just because I
want it at the top of the list, but it is not necessary.

In fact I us ethe following special categories:

1. Various Artists
2. Various Artists - Christmas
3. Various Artists - Soundtrack

Tis way I don't rely at all on the Squeezecenter algorithm for
determing when an album is a "VA" album.

Hope it helps.


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