Hi,
Sorry I know there are already tons of threads on this but I can't get my head around what I should be doing to get my various artists working properly and each case is a bit individual it seems. The way I tag compilations used to work at some point in the past and then an update to LMS stopped them showing up in my library.
My entire LMS library is FLAC and I convert to mp3 for the ipod but there are no mp3's in my LMS library at all. The way I currently have them tagged is:
ALBUM: compilation title
ARTIST: Various Artists
GENRE: compilation genre
TITLE: artist name / song title
TRACK: track number
YEAR: year of release
I know this is somewhat wrong but I also don't have any desire for a million artists whom I only have 1 or 2 songs by to appear in my artists list on my ipod or squeezeboxes so that's why I put the artist in the TITLE tag and tagged them all with the ARTIST as "Various Artists". I also like it that way so I can see at a glance the artist name of the current track in my car without having to press a button on the radio to show the actual artist tag. So I'd like to leave my titles the way they are and just sort out why they aren't even showing on my squeezebox. The way I have them currently makes them show up fine on my ipod, they don't show under the normal artists menu but they do show under the compilations menu.
So I just need to know what I have to change in my tags to make my compilations reappear in my LMS menu. I've read about maybe adding a COMPILATION tag?
Also another thing I noticed, LMS became extremely picky with capitalisation at the same time my compilations stopped working so if I had 2 albums by an artist and the tags were slightly differently capitalised I would get a whole new artist listed all because I occasionally had "the" instead of "The" or "A" instead of "a". Is there any way to stop this or do I really have to go through my entire library checking capitalisation?
Sorry I know there are already tons of threads on this but I can't get my head around what I should be doing to get my various artists working properly and each case is a bit individual it seems. The way I tag compilations used to work at some point in the past and then an update to LMS stopped them showing up in my library.
My entire LMS library is FLAC and I convert to mp3 for the ipod but there are no mp3's in my LMS library at all. The way I currently have them tagged is:
ALBUM: compilation title
ARTIST: Various Artists
GENRE: compilation genre
TITLE: artist name / song title
TRACK: track number
YEAR: year of release
I know this is somewhat wrong but I also don't have any desire for a million artists whom I only have 1 or 2 songs by to appear in my artists list on my ipod or squeezeboxes so that's why I put the artist in the TITLE tag and tagged them all with the ARTIST as "Various Artists". I also like it that way so I can see at a glance the artist name of the current track in my car without having to press a button on the radio to show the actual artist tag. So I'd like to leave my titles the way they are and just sort out why they aren't even showing on my squeezebox. The way I have them currently makes them show up fine on my ipod, they don't show under the normal artists menu but they do show under the compilations menu.
So I just need to know what I have to change in my tags to make my compilations reappear in my LMS menu. I've read about maybe adding a COMPILATION tag?
Also another thing I noticed, LMS became extremely picky with capitalisation at the same time my compilations stopped working so if I had 2 albums by an artist and the tags were slightly differently capitalised I would get a whole new artist listed all because I occasionally had "the" instead of "The" or "A" instead of "a". Is there any way to stop this or do I really have to go through my entire library checking capitalisation?