As far as tagging, some of it specifically for Squeezebox Server...
- Add COMPILATION=1 fields to all tracks on compilation albums. A
compilation album to SBS is an album with tracks by more than one
artist. So-called compilations such as "Best of" albums from a single
artist are not compilations in the same sense. Strictly speaking, the
COMPILATION tag isn't necessary, as SBS will automatically mark any
album as a compilation if it sees tracks from more than one artist.
- If you have an album with guest artists, add an ALBUMARTIST tag to
keep SBS from automatically detecting it as a compilation. The
ALBUMARTIST will also dictate where the album is sorted when albums
are sorted by artist.
- You can add ALBUMARTIST tags to all albums, with no ill-effect. So
for most albums that means you'd have the same value in ARTIST and
ALBUMARTIST. It's not necessary, but if you automate the tagging
process it may be easier to do it this way.
- Avoid adding an ALBUMARTIST field to compilations. Many people add
ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists or something similar and find that it
causes headaches in SBS.
- You can use associated _SORT fields to tell SBS how to sort names.
ARTIST has ARTISTSORT, ALBUMARTIST has ALBUMARTISTSORT, ALBUM has
ALBUMSORT. This is most often used for sorting arist names in
lastname/firstname order. For example:
ARTIST=Hank Williams
ARTISTSORT=Williams, Hank
An Mp3tag action using a regular expression can be constructed to
automate this.
- With FLAC files, multiple values should be placed in multiple
fields with the same name. For example, if you have a track with more
than one ARTIST, place each artist name in its own ARTIST field.
In Mp3tag this is represented using a double backslash. For example:
Robert Plant\\Alison Krauss
If you save this and then look at the tags in Mp3tag's Extended Tags
dialog, you'll see two separate ARTIST fields.
- If you want Squeezebox Server to present a multi-disc album as a
single album, make sure that the ALBUM field for all tracks are
identical. Many times they get tagged with something like "Moonflower
(Disc 1)", "Moonflower (Disc 2)". Remove the disc number from the
album name.
- Multi-disc albums can have tracks numbered several different ways,
depending on your preference.
- You can renumber the tracks so that the they span all discs and
treat the album as though it consisted of a single large disc, for
example tracks numbered 1 to 49 on a three disc album. Remove or
leave out DISCNUMBER fields.
- Or, you can prefix the discnumber to the tracknumber, again
treating the album as one large disc. The tracknumbers are just
different. So they have tracknumbers 101, 102, 103, ... 201, 202
... 301, 302, etc. No DISCNUMBER field.
- Or, you can number tracks on each disc from 1 to N, then add
DISCNUMBER (or DISC) tags. The DISCNUMBER tag is important, so that
SBS can sort the tracks into the correct order. SBS can also use
DISCNUMBER when displaying tracks from an album. Typically, the
format used is 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 etc.
Because of the way it formats DISCNUMBER, SBS displays are often
neater if you don't add DISCNUMBER=1 to single disc sets and only
include DISCNUMBER on multi-disc sets.
- You may want to avoid adding COMPOSER tags to popular music. Some
automated tagging scripts will add a composer to just about any song.
It's mostly of little use with anything except classical music and can
cause some strange behavior in Squeezebox Server. Such as when you
view an artist's list of albums, SBS may also include albums on which
the artist is a composer.
--
JJZolx
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