Track artists in compilations (Again)

[simoncn]

(20-08-2013 23:50)vln Wrote:  Could you elaborate - what is the syntax and which field do I use it on?

You would need to use an external tagging program such as Mp3tag to add TitleArtist tags to all the tracks of your compilation albums. The value of the TitleArtist tag would be the track artist for that individual track (i.e., the same value as the Artist tag).

Quote:Given that iTunes offers an Album Artist field, wouldn't that be ideal to use for compilations - i.e. enter 'Various Artists' (or whatever generic name you want for compilations) there, and then associate AlbumArtist in MinimServer to this value, and then use

Title.displayFormat={$titleartist^^ - ^$title}

on these (and only these) albums?

Setting the AlbumArtist value is the easy part. The difficult part is getting track artists to show in the titles of tracks from compilation albums without also showing them in the titles of tracks from non-compilation albums.

This is difficult because MinimServer doesn't have any way to apply a format setting to some albums and not apply it to other albums.

The only way round this at present is to apply the format setting to all albums and change the tagging of compilation albums so that the format setting does the right thing when applied to both compilation albums and non-compilation albums.