stedes wrote: > I recently decided to retag my FLAC library (about 12.000 tracks). All > going well (using MP3TAG) until I got to Compilations. I wanted to tag > these albums so that they appear in the artists view under "V" as > "Various Artists" with the artist for each song retained and displayed > on the SB3 screen. I do not want the albums or songs appearing in the > individual artists (this is not a must - flexible).
I don't believe the last part is doable in LMS. If an artist appears on an album in any role, then that album will appear under the artist. > > I tagged these albums as follows: > - %artist% - retained for each track > - %artistsort% - "Various Artists" > - %albumartist%, %albumartistsort% - blank > Setting ARTISTSORT=Various Artists here is the mistake. ARTISTSORT corresponds with ARTIST, so each of those ARTISTs will be sorted under V. A more commonl use of ARTISTSORT is to do lastname, firstname sorting. For example: ARTIST=Geri Allen ARTISTSORT=Allen, Geri There is a corresponding sort field for ALBUMARTIST, called ALBUMARTISTSORT, but it's not necessary to use either ARTISTSORT or ALBUMARTISTSORT when it's no different than the corresponding field. For example, Aerosmith will be sorted under A with or without ARTISTSORT=Aerosmith. > > On the server side settings are as follow: > - Group compilation albums together > - List albums by band > - TPE2 as albumartist > The 'Group compilation albums together' setting actually controls whether artists who appear _only_ on compilations appear in the artist list. When this setting is chosen they will not. When the 'List compilation albums under each artist' setting is chosen, they will all be listed. It's designed to allow you to declutter the artist list to some extent. > This has resulted in Various Artists appearing both at the very top of > Artists (before "A") and under "V". Although this is not a problem, > after the Various Artists entry in "V" all the artists that exist in any > compilation album are listed alphabetically (and these do not appear > anywhere else under Artists). This is really upsetting me as I have no > idea how to fix it. The "Various Artists" that you see listed first in the artist list is a special pseudo-artist that LMS creates as an album artist for compilations. It will always appear first, and you have no control over that. You can rename it in the settings if you like, but that's it. As a rule the best way to tag compilations is with a COMPILATION=1 field and with no ALBUMARTIST or ALBUMARTISTSORT fields. For example, a typical compilation track might be tagged: ALBUM=Slide Guitar Blues TITLE=Mojo Boogie TRACK=1 ARTIST=Johnmy Winter ARTISTSORT=Winter, Johnny GENRE=Blues The COMPILATION=1 field isn't strictly necessary except (due to a bug in LMS) on multi-disc albums, which won't be grouped properly unless it's used. I just add it to all compilation albums. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95924 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
