Hi Bill - Just saw this thread. Unfortunately, SqueezeCenter does not handle this as gracefully as many would like. You can use the AlbumArtist tag to assign an artist for the album, and then to use the Artist tag for all of the featured artists. Then you can either have SqueezeCenter list all the artists in the browser (which becomes quite a mess with large libraries, or you can have it just list the albums by "Band" which is equivalent to AlbumArtist. When you setup SC to list by band, you will still see the individual artists under track artists when you view that track in the browser.
There is no way to link an artist to a table of instruments though, so you wanted to know who played a particular instrument you would have to include that as part of the artist track. In jazz that might not be a big problem, since there are relatively few musicians who play multiple instruments. So, you can just list "McCoy Tyner" and know he was playing keyboard. In bluegrass, where there are lots of musicians who play multiple instruments, that becomes more of a problem. There are music database programs like CATraxx, that can be used for serious collecting, but I don't think it can be integrated with SC. My understanding is that there is work being done on the database end of SC that may make some of this easier in the future. Hope that helps. -- stevek1006 -Steve ------------------------------ Steven Kramer [email protected] ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stevek1006's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1369 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68150 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
