>-multiple artist tracks: use the ARTIST comment over and over? How is >that treated in SBS? Does it list them all at once, scroll through them >on the SBT display? Is each artist treated seperately in searches, or is >Alison Krauss & Emmylou Harris a different artist than Alison Krauss? >-do I need to denote this as a compilation? advantages? >-is it really necessary to use "various" as the "album artist", or can >multiple "artist" tags be used with the same effect? > You can add an ARTIST tag for each artist on each song. You can have multiple artist tags for a song. i.e. ARTIST=Alison Krauss, ARTIST=Emmylou Harris.
On Touch, if you browse albums, it will only show one of the artists :( eg, I have an album "No Quarter" by Page & Plant. I have this tagged with ARTIST=Jimmy Page, ARTIST=Robert Plant, and BAND=Page & Plant. When I browse artists, the album will appear under all three artist names. However, in album context (wherever the album appears within a list of albums), it is denoted as by "Jimmy Page", not both artists or "Page & Plant". When playing it will only show one artist :-( Song info shows all artists, but it's hard to get to, because touching a song will play the song, rather than show song details :-( If you have different ARTIST tags for songs on an album, it will automatically be seen as a compilation. You do not need to set an album artist tag, or compilation tag - it just works. It is not necessary to set an Album Artist for compilations; it will automatically display as "Various Artists". In fact, it's better that you don't set an album artist. >I understand that multiple "album" tags can be used, but >is there any functionality to connect a certain piece of album art with >a certain album, or is the album art considered to be just a collection >of jpgs from a single album? Can multiple "year" tags be used? > An album can only have one piece of artwork. i.e. songs can't have their own artwork :-( i.e. artwork is tagged with songs, but when songs are scanned, artwork is attached to an album. Therefore you could end up with an arbitrary album artwork file if songs have different artwork tags/files. The most obvious example are singles (songs without an album tag), which get displayed as "No Album". This album could have many different songs by different artists, and if you browse to an artist you will see "No Album", but the artwork will be for one arbitrary artwork file (probably the first/last song without an album name that was scanned). Phil _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
