>Good point. I have about 50 classical CDs out of over 6,000 CDs, so not >a priority for me. > I don't have much classical either, but where I have ripped them, I have used BAND/ORCHESTRA to hold the orchestra name.
I also use BAND for alias names in popular music, instead on ALBUM ARTIST, leaving ALBUM ARTIST for its intended purpose. For example, there is a band that was originally known as "A Silver Mt. Zion". On subsequent albums, they changed their name subtley. eg. "Thee Silver Mt. Zion" and "A Silver Mt. Zion and Tra-La Band". I wanted all albums by effectively the same artist to be linked together, but still report the official artist name, as it is declared on the CD's. i.e. I tag with ARTIST="Thee Silver Mt. Zion" and BAND="A Silver Mt. Zion". Then I can browse to either the artist or the band in the Browse Artists list. I have quite a few cases like this, and it works well in SBS. For example, albums by "Page & Plant", and "Coverdale & Page". I tag these with: ARTIST="Jimmy Page;Robert Plant", BAND="Page & Plant". ARTIST="David Coverdale;Jimmy Page", BAND="Coverdale & Page". When I Browse Artists, I can find the albums under either the Band or any of the Artists. I can decide whether to show the Artist(s) or the Band name in the Now Playing screen too. Quite versatile. Whereas Album Artist I ONLY use if tracks on an album have differing artist names, and need to be grouped under one artist name to avoid becoming a compilation. i.e. I have a song by "Thee Silver Mt. Zion", also known as the band "A Silver Mt. Zion", that appears on a compilation album, thus the song has an ARTIST tag, a BAND tag, COMPILATION tag and an ALBUM ARTIST="Various Artists" tags. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
