garym;591142 Wrote: > Time for a beer. This is making my head hurt. And to top it off, I just > noticed that SbS is treating a FLAC double album of Harry Nilsson > (Personal Best) as a COMPILATION. And there is no compilation tag, > there is no ALBUM ARTIST (or AlbumArtist). The only thing I noticed is > that one of the songs has two artists separated with semicolon (perfect > day). I added Album Artist as Harry Nilsson to all the songs and now it > is no longer treated as compilation. > > I've checked some other albums with multiple artists on a track and > sure enough, they are listed as compilations. I never would have > thought that these would be treated as compilations by SbS because of > that fact alone. > > Just when I had reached the conclusion that I should leave Album Artist > blank unless I had a specific reason to use it (or wanted "various > artists" listed for compilations) I now see that I need to always fill > in album artist just in case I have a stray track with multiple artists > listed. > > Mr. Sinatra, you've thought hard about all this compilation stuff. Any > thoughts? Edit: And Philip, this is implied in your discussion above > (the idea that SbS treats albums as compilations if any of the track > artists are different and Album Artist is blank).
indeed, i have put a LOT of thought and time into these questions, so much so that the author of Bliss asked me to write about my strategies for tagging, which was nice of him to do. i ended up writing 13 pages and i barely covered the basics, and i frequently said thru-out that i didn't know for sure about this or that, or i was new to FLAC or whatever... i think Gary, you're basically like me, you want to K.I.S.S. and to me that means one approach to cover all apps/devices. to that end, i put AA tags on everything. i see no practical reason, none, not to do this. frequently AA tags will = artist tags, but you can use whatever value you want, which to me is where i want it sorted, (and the AA tag works to sort the same across almost any app/device). by doing so, you also defeat the automatic mandatory SBS VA detection logic, (that i dislike), which always detects something is a comp if there is even one mismatch on an album, and no AA tags. i use TPE2 for AA for mp3s, and i let winamp/mp3tag write AA tags however they want for FLACs (seemingly with a space). this has worked perfectly for me. my approach may not work for Foobar users, since they, (you guys seem to be saying anyway), do not treat TPE2 as AA, and can't be made to. but foobar is alone is this regard, and i don't use it. i do add comp=1 tags, but only for the benefit of others who use itunes/ipods. for my use, i really don't care if SBS "knows" something is a comp or not, but it doesn't hurt either way. i'll happily clarify anything you'd like? my posts will start appearing at the Bliss site in a couple of days, and i'll be interested to hear your guys feedback. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbrec & ipeng (parents' home) - sbs 7.5.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 45k+ mp3 ::VOTE FOR 'BUG 15604' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15604)!!!:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83073 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
