Artist vs. AlbumArtist

[simoncn]

(15-08-2012 22:48)bubbleguuum Wrote:  Well there's no real standard to flag compilations. I personnaly use a custom COMPILATION TXXX frame with value 1, written by foobar2000 when I tag my files.

But there is also a more widespread itunescompilation tag stored in a TCMP frame.

See there for more info:
http://forums.mp3tag.de/lofiversion/inde...13266.html

I would presonnaly avoid using genre=compilation to flag compilations as "compilation" is not a genre.

Thanks for the pointer to TCMP. The TCMP frame is unofficial and not part of the ID3v2 standard. See this page. However, if it's written by iTunes, there's some case for MinimServer supporting it.

I'm aware that iTunes has special rules for how contributing artists are treated on "compilation" albums. Do you think an album tagged with TXXX COMPILATION=1 should trigger this special iTunes treatment? If not, do you think TXXX COMPILATION=1 should have any special semantics in MinimServer compared with (for example) TXXX COLLECTION=1?