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2010-12-01, 18:30
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Hi
What TAG does XBMC reads to determin the album or mp3 is a collection?
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See the wiki - it has the full details there, likely in the Music Library or Preparing your music sections.
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Thanx for your awnser
What i cant find in wiki is what determins if or not the album/track shows up in "Compilations". the rest i think i got...:-)
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Compilations are anything that has Various Artists as the album artist.
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thanx for your awner,,,:-)
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XBMC wont list/sort the album under "compilations" when album artist is set as Various Artists, iv tryed several times, but album dont show up there, there are a few listed there, but i cant seem to get new ones in?
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there seems also to be differance in lang. im using Norwegian for XBMC and there its called "Diverse Artister", when i switch back to english. all "Various Artists" in Album artists shows up in compalations, this shouldnt be dependet on lang... in my humble oppinion...
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Don't want to hijack the thread, but, regarding compilations, there is any way to prevent a song present in a compilation to be shown ALSO in artist tree (i want to limit compilations songs ONLY in compilations node)? I know it's the right behavior, but it's frustrating to see 10 disc in /Artist/Albums/ when i have only one album of that artist. Thanks!
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hehe, in all my testing around the subject, it seems Episode numbering disappeard in tv-shows, any quick tip to get it back... :-)
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thank you so much, my head spinns soon around myself here, so many options to get used to and the important on, remember where they are...hehehe
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If the tag meant anything to XBMC once things are in the library I would have mentioned it. Look in the database - there is no "this is a compilation" flag at all. The only thing the tag is used for is to set the albumartist field to "Various Artists" if (and only if) the albumartist field isn't already set.
The problem as the OP has pointed out is the use of localized strings for storing this stuff - it's been on the "this needs fixing" for quite some time. A patch would be welcome - I'm more than happy to supply pointers.
Cheers,
Jonathan