Open MrRalph opened 10 years ago
I got your point... Checking my collection I noticed the same: Compilations/sampler have different setup. Some with ALBUM ARTIST=Various, some without this field.
In my opinion ALBUM ARTIST=Various is the best solution to mark something as sampler, due a missing/empty field implies "unknown". This is realated to my ticket with modifying fields on the fly: #16
I meant to reply to this sooner; sorry.
COMPILATION
isn't something I see really documented, and actually there's not really a specification for what Vorbis (FLAC) tags are valid. I personally use
ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists
for all compilations. This is the standard followed by MusicBrainz, and works well for my usage with iTunes. This seems more likely to be something that would become possible with a general tag mapping facility that may or may not appear in the future. I would personally recommend modifying the tags in your FLAC files.
My music library consists of 1901 albums with 29725 songs by 4771 artists. All FLAC and meticulous tagged. Tagging with Foobar and played through a Logitech Media Server eco-system. I also need to support ITunes for wife and kids; this is where mp3fs comes in.
There are two areas where I need to decide how to proceed: album art and compilations. If there are no plans to incorporate these features in mp3fs, that's fine and good to know, and do I need to do some retagging instead. So this item is more to understand the roadmap than anything else.
Thanks, Ralph