Possible Various Artist insights

Christie Harris dangle.baby at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 21:17:19 UTC 2006


> > I noticed that the only difference between tracks from a particular album
> > was the bitrate - is it possible this is being taken into consideration
> > when determining whether to show an album under various artists or not?
>
> Nope. Should only be the Artist Name. Maybe the initial name for track
> 20 differed slightly - maybe only the case - so the scanner tagged it
> as a multiple-artist album.

Nup - The track tags were edited before the track was added to the collection, 
using the auto-complete feature in the tag editor to select the exact tag 
used in the other files. It was then added using "move to collection". The 
filename did differ, but was made uniform as part of the move.

> > That one track is still showing under various artists (mainly because I
> > don't want to flag it with "do not show under various artists" until
> > there's some feedback on this theory.
>
> I *think* that you have to mark it "do not show..." after re-tagging. :-)



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