New here & some Properties questions

[RexManning]

(15-07-2015 20:55)simoncn Wrote:  

(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.

Ok, so "Minimserver is consistent" means it works as designed and we don't have the option to show All Artists for an album in the All Artist - Album view? Any hope of that changing in the future??

In the meantime I will delete my AlbumArtist data from these albums again, that should do the trick. I can't remember why I opted for the AlbumArtist Various, but there must have been a good reason...which I most likely will find out again after

- The option to select #items: as mentioned gives me all songs for that artist (258 in Herbie's case) for all it's albums in chronological order, not so handy and even so, I can't see the album and all containing artists.

- The option to use the # albums, I get a list of all my 2137 albums in year order (as I like them to be when I browse to an artist, latest album on top. So also not so handy when I'm scrolling for 1997 album 1+1. But, I tried and located it and it didn't show all artists however, it showed the same Various Artists again the same as in the earlier screenshots.

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.

Thanks! I'll give that a go, not the most urgent of questions though.


** Update
I just checked with a difficult album (different songs, different artists) and removed the Album Artist (first being Lee Ritenour). It seems to be working like I would like it.
Looks like it somehow throws all Artists from all songs on one pile and shows that under the Album.

So I will start again from A..