New here & some Properties questions

[simoncn]

(15-07-2015 18:25)RexManning Wrote:  I use AlbumArtist tags for all files (mostly Jazz). A lot of my albums involve various cooperating artists, for instance half of the album could be this drummer, the other half another drummer. Any album solely on the name of the lead Artist, even though there are other Artists involved, will have the lead's name as the AlbumArtist. If the album is clearly a group effort where no one is in the lead (2+ people), I tag AlbumArtist as Various Artists.

So do I understand correctly now that it will always show AlbumArtist if present, and will use All Artists if AlbumArtist is empty? Can I manipulate that behaviour in the settings, or would I have to clear all AlbumArtist fields in my database (rather not)?

Thanks for these screenshots. MinimServer is consistent because it is showing the 1+1 album with Various Artists in the # albums list in the first screenshot and also as the album at the top of the second screenshot.

The left-hand pane in the second screenshot is showing individual tracks with track artists Herbie Hancock / Wayne Shorter. To see this track information in the items/albums lists, you can select # items instead of # albums or you can open the album's contents from the # albums list.

Quote:At home in Europe I use a Naim streamer. Here in South America I can only use my laptop unfortunately. Where Foobar is not very easy to use as a control point to check these sort of things. So I am using my iPad with either VLC or Arcam MusicLife at the moment for this Tagging/Minimserver purpose only. Love to hear for a better alternative than foobar on my laptop though.

You could try Linn Kinsky 4.3.2 as a UPnP control point for Windows. Later versions dosn't work properly with non-Linn streamers.