Sorry to be late getting back to you. garym;566649 Wrote: > Mine are mostly FLAC. And most do NOT have album artist tags (I > intentionally do NOT use album artist tags except for compilations and > for things like Neil Young as album artist even though the track artist > is "The Squires".
I set up a test bed directory with just a few subdirectories and music files to do a little systemaatic testing. I tried removing the ALBUMARTIST tags, and what I found is that that the behavior is just the same. Namely, if the ALBUM (i.e., title) tag is the same, then the files are grouped together as one album no matter what directory they are in, if the ARTIST (i.e., track artist) tags are the same. So, multiple "Greatest Hits" files in different directories appear in the Albums list under a single album, and all the tracks are gathered there. But the trick is that the artist names have to be the same (for instance, "Larry") for all. If there is an ALBUMARTIST tag, that one is used. If not, then the ARTIST tag is used. A saving grace, however, is that if there are multiple artist names (for instance, "Larry;Curly", where the ";" is a separator character recognized as such by SBS), then only the first name seems to count. So if you have some files where the artist names are listed as "Larry;Curly" and others where they're "Curly;Larry", those files will be gathered under separate album listings. (I have only tried this with the ALBUMARTIST tag, not the ARTIST tag.) garym;566649 Wrote: > But your example raises another question. You note that they have > overlap in artists, with one album A,B,C and another album A, D, E. If > I have albums with multiple artists, it would be a COMPILATION to me, > and the complilation tag would have a value of "1". Is this happening > to you with albums with a SINGLE artist (i.e., a greatest hit album > name for one artist only). Yes, it happens with just a single artist. I believe that if you try making the ARTIST tags the same in your "Greatest Hits" album FLAC files and rescan, you'll find they've become one big happy album. -- dpotts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dpotts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80886 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
