A few things are becoming a little clearer. It helps me to get things straight by recording what I know here, even if nobody else is interested!
Some of what I feel is anomalous behaviour comes down to the 'compilation' flag. There is existing code in CUE.pm that sets the compilation flag to true if the cuesheet ALBUMARTIST differs from any of the individual track performers (the same as the rule I tried earlier, except that the existing rule is only triggered when ALBUMARTIST is explicitly set). Another thing I realised is that after parsing, the concept of the cue sheet is no longer relevant - what's returned is a track database, and each track can have its own ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST and TRACKARTIST fields. So a few observations (I'm fairly sure these are all correct, but it's difficult to check every case): 1) If an album IS flagged as a compilation, neither the ALBUMARTIST nor the ARTIST will ever show up in the Album Artists list. 2) If the compilation flag IS NOT set, the Album Artists list will contain the ALBUMARTIST fields from all tracks (if set), or the ARTIST fields (if ALBUMARTIST is not set). I checked this by temporarily disabling the built in compilation check. 3) Because of the built-in rule, an album that has multiple different track artists -but no album artist- will not show up as a compilation. In this case, the per-track ARTIST fields will contain the TRACKARTIST values, and these will therefore appear in the Album Artists list. So it seems that my original Phil Spector example, with multiple different track artists and his name in the top level PERFORMER tag, will fall foul of the built in compilation check (because "Phil Spector" differs from at least one of the individual track artists). And once it is identified as a compilation, none of the performers will end up in the Album Artists list (see point 1). If I remove the top level PERFORMER tag, then the built in rule no longer identifies it as a compilation, and since there's no ALBUMARTIST field, the ARTIST fields (which equal the TRACKARTIST fields) are used to populate the Album Artist menu. So I now feel I understand what's going on - I just need to think through what I would prefer to happen and work out how to achieve it. I suspect nothing can be done in CUE.pm to make "Phil Spector" appear in the Album Artist list because of the downstream rule that nobody in a compilation appears in the Album Artists. Is that a valid rule or a bug? I'll have to think about that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113834 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
