2009-11-07, 16:21
Hi
I'm having some problems scanning my rather neatly organized (with Media Monkey) music library into XBMC. Specifically, it seems that the scanner is picking up some database field values from the file names / paths, when I would like it to only read from the ID3 v2 tags embedded in the files (in most cases, using path / file name would be ok, but keep reading).
In particular, I am having trouble scanning VA / Various Artists / Compilation albums in, and having them appear as Compilations, and not as regular albums. I have tried several things including, setting Album Artist = "", setting Album Artist = "Various Artists", removing ID3 v1 tags to ensure that only v2 tags are being read, and still it doesn't work. XBMC seems to pick up "VA" as the Album Artist (and in a few rare cases "Various Artists"), and the albums show up as regular albums, not as compilations, except for perhaps 1% of the compilations.
This, in turn, greatly increases the size of the "Artists" listing, as compilation-only artists are not being excluded from this list, even though I ticked this off in the settings.
Please advice.
Tusse.
I'm having some problems scanning my rather neatly organized (with Media Monkey) music library into XBMC. Specifically, it seems that the scanner is picking up some database field values from the file names / paths, when I would like it to only read from the ID3 v2 tags embedded in the files (in most cases, using path / file name would be ok, but keep reading).
In particular, I am having trouble scanning VA / Various Artists / Compilation albums in, and having them appear as Compilations, and not as regular albums. I have tried several things including, setting Album Artist = "", setting Album Artist = "Various Artists", removing ID3 v1 tags to ensure that only v2 tags are being read, and still it doesn't work. XBMC seems to pick up "VA" as the Album Artist (and in a few rare cases "Various Artists"), and the albums show up as regular albums, not as compilations, except for perhaps 1% of the compilations.
This, in turn, greatly increases the size of the "Artists" listing, as compilation-only artists are not being excluded from this list, even though I ticked this off in the settings.
Please advice.
Tusse.