As you can tell there are several "opinions" on how to properly tag your compilations. The thing about it is that they're all correct as long as the whole library is tagged consistently.
As a debt to history my compilations in my library are all tagged with Album Artist = Various. Back when I built my first server in 2003 the best wireless solution I could find was the SoundBlaster Wireless Music system. It was much like the Duet in that there was a separate controller / receiver, however the controller only did text for browsing the library. It also had server software like SBS that you could also control the player from. The issue with compilation albums was the server had ZERO direct support for compilation albums. I found that I could set Artist to the track performer and Album Artist to Various and the compilations would sort as they should under the "Various" album artist. The Soundblaster server software had no capability of any kind to play music on the PC so if I wanted to play my music on the PC rather than the stereo I had to use WMP. This same tagging methodology worked fine for WMP too so I was set. A couple of years ago when I upgraded to the Duet I found that my library fell right into SBS looking (sorting) just like it always had. With the SBS server set to "Group Compilations together", "List Albums by band" and "Treat TPE2 MP3 tag as "Album Artist" all my compilations only show under the artist "Various" with no "Various Artist" entry in the beginning of the browse by artist menu. This is what I was used to so I'm happy with the way I've got it. -- w3wilkes 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1 for downstairs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ w3wilkes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22973 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88072 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
