Philip Meyer;591152 Wrote: > >I guess I simply wish SbS had an option to turn off "guessing" > >regarding compilations for any of us that don't want the guessing > based > >on tags. > > > It isn't guessing. It's sensible logic. Differing song artists = > compilation with album artist = Various Artists. > > After all, it has to do *something* if there is no other information to > go on. What is the alternative? > > If it had not made your album a compilation, with album artist "Various > Artists", then what would it have done? It would have ended up with > multiple albums with the same name, one for each track artist. The > songs would not be joined together onto one album. > > The logic has been implemented this way for this exact reason. It > can't automatically join all songs on an album tag that matches > otherwise you have the "Greatest Hits" issue. e.g. Where two albums > called "Greatest Hits" by different artists are merged into one album > containing all songs on both albums.
"guessing" was sloppy, I agree that the logic is sensible. Fortunately, I just figured out that I only have about two dozen albums that are listed as compilations (that I don't want to be). So it's an easy fix with Album Artist tags.... -- 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
