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I have many comp albums in my collection, and XBMC displays the album cover for each & every track on each & every album, making flipping thru music very tedious. I have "Show Artists only on compilations" setting turned off, but not helping. I tried searching this topic , but got no results.
thanks in advance.
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Sounds like XBMC isn't identifying them as compilations. See the wiki on how XBMC determines this, and modify your tags accordingly.
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Thanks! I'm off to wiki..
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Well I found this:
As many users don't yet use the Album Artist tag, XBMC has an additional filter system for identifying compilation albums, where each track normally has a different artist. As XBMC scans a folder, it does the following:
1. Identifies albums based on Album name alone in the folder and groups the songs that have the same Album name together as an album.
2. Runs through each album's assigned songs. If there is 2 or more tracks with the same Track number, the group of songs must come from 2 or more albums, so the Album name is ruled out as a possible compilation.
3. If any of the songs assigned to the Album name have an Album Artist tag, then XBMC assumes the user knows what they're doing, and this album is also ruled out from being a compilation.
4. If two or more songs assigned to the Album name then have different primary artists, then the Album name is considered to be a group of songs from a compilation, and the Various Artists" tag is assigned as the album artist.
5. Otherwise, if all the songs have the same primary artist but don't have the same full artist list (eg a song or two has an additional artist) then the album is assigned the primary artist as it's Album Artist, and we assume the additional artists are guest artists.
So I went back & retagged all my comps as "VA" for the Album Artist. But some of them are now OK, and some of them still aren't. I did it *exactly* the same for each one:
track #-artist-songtitle as the filename, and same info in tag, but only used VA for artist.
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