>Say you have an album/EP that is sung by many different artists >together per song. Like the 1997 BBC single 'Perfect Day'. > >Then every songs within the album would properly get ARTIST="Various" >and ALBUM ARTIST="Lou Reed"...(thus actually a single artist album) > You could set ARTIST=Various, to indicate there are many artists participating, if you didn't want to include them all. Or you could remove the ARTIST tag completely (i.e. no specified artists), and leave ALBUM ARTIST=Lou Reed. Or you could just set ARTIST=Lou Reed. Either will work, it's up to your personal preference.
I haven't got many cases like that myself. Where I have, I usually enter (on a track-by-track basis) all artists that I would ever be interesting in browsing (could be none), and I'd extract text info off a web site (eg. from discogs.com), and store them in a text file within the album folder on disk (eg. Album Info.txt, Artist Info.txt, and/or Review.txt, etc), and use my Song Files Viewer plugin to read the file content if I desired on a player, rather than fill the player UI up with a massive list of details. I also have a few albums where the artists are not known, so in that case I definitely leave the artist tag blank. I never use "Various Artists" as an artist tag, because this relates to the contributors on a song, which are either known, or not known (leave blank). I do sometimes use "Various Artists" or equivalent name for an album artist, as this is the context of a group of songs on an album, so the artists may be different on each song. >To force it out the SBS artist browsed list and into the SBS 'Various >Artists' browse, you would need to have at least 1 track differently >like ARTIST="Various_" You don't need to force it to be a compilation album by making one artist tag different; you can add a compilation tag. In your case for flac files this would be COMPILATION=1. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
