Recently I’ve been ripping and tagging my entire music collection to
really start using my Squeezebox. Now all 12.000+ music files are
tip-top tagged and maintained (with help of MediaMonkey & mp3tag) I’m
wondering why Squeezebox displays my music collection different then
what I want and am used to in MediaMonkey.

The situation:
- All music files are tagged with idv2 tags
- All music files have an ‘artist’ tag
- All albums have an ‘album artist’ (which is btw identical to the tag
‘ensemble’; default behaviour of MediaMonkey)
- All ‘collection’ albums are tagged with ‘compilation=1’and
‘itunescompilation=1’ (I don’t yet use Itunes, but in case I’m going to
load my iPod with these music file)
- Squeezebox is configured to:
o Compilations = Group compilation albums together 
o List albums by band  
o Treat TPE2 MP3 tag as Album Artist 

I would therefore expect to have all Squeezebox show all unique ‘album
artist’ in the artist view and have ‘Various Artists’ show all albums
tagged with compilation.

Squeezebox however also displays some individual artists in the
‘artists’ view: mostly, if not all, artists of music files where the
artist is the artists of all music files on the album. An example:

Album: albumname
Album artist: artist1
1: title x; artist: artist1 & artist2
2: title x; artist: artist1 & artist2
3: title x; artist: artist1 & artist2
4: title x; artist: artist1 & artist2
5: title x; artist: artist1 & artist2
6: title x; artist: artist1 & artist2
7: title x; artist: artist1 & artist2

In this case I would like to only have “artist1” in the artist view,
Squeezebox however displays “artist1 & artist2”. Similar albums which
are not marked as a compilation but which have different artists for
each title and still shows as compilation. Even if I have manually
defined an “album artist’ for these cd’s. Mostly the name of the DJ.

How can I therefore configure Squeezebox to display only the album
artist in the artist view? Is this possible by default, or with help of
some modifications??


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