Philip Meyer;591141 Wrote: > >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.
good examples. I can see where this could help me quite a bit with organization of some of my extensive Neil Young related stuff (like you, I like the artist on a track to be true to the original, but I'd like to see all the related songs under the high level artist (e.g., Neil Young). Another artist for whom I have 100s of albums, but often with differing names is Doug Sahm (Doug Sahm & Band, Sir Douglas Quintet, The Masked Men, etc.) -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83073 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
