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Quote: Originally Posted by Philip Meyer It is not necessary to set an Album Artist for compilations; it will automatically display as "Various Artists". In fact, it's better that you don't set an album artist. for OPs benefit: the above is absolutely true IF you ONLY care about SBS. if however you need other apps to work correctly, depending on what they are, you might find you need AA tags on everything, and...

>-multiple artist tracks: use the ARTIST comment over and over? How is >that treated in SBS? Does it list them all at once, scroll through them >on the SBT display? Is each artist treated seperately in searches, or is >Alison Krauss & Emmylou Harris a different artist than Alison Krauss? >-do I need to denote this as a compilation? advantages? >-is it really necessary to use...

Quote: Originally Posted by MrSinatra i think it will work fine for you, altho i can't speak to using 2.4 as i use 2.3 what ver of sbs do u use? you might want to use the betas. I am using SBS Version: 7.4.1 - r28947 I cannot use a higher version because it is running with SSODS 4.1 on a SYNOLOGY 107+ NAS-server. (see signature ) I do not know if SSODS 4.2 can run the beta's.

Here's a trick that may be helpful to someone else. In the newest version of Mp3tag you can map field names to others. I'd always found Mp3tag to be awkward to use when trying to tag both FLAC and MP3 files. This is due to its use of internal field names that it maps to the actual names for different types of tags. I create a lot of Actions (actually 'Action Groups') to automate the tagging of files. The problem is that for...

Also, make sure you don't have an ITUNESCOMPILATION tag. In mp3tag add custom column with field %itunescompilation% as well as one for COMPILATION (%compilation%). In another thread someone found some ITUNESCOMPILATION tags they didn't know they had with value = 1 and that seemed to cause their problems....

Thats what I changed in mp3tag (adding a custom ALBUMARTIST tag) and now everything is working like expected. Thanks everyone for your help.

Progress.... Geez I hope this helps and makes sense to some one since it drove me nuts! First off it would seem that a separate rip , extra step, from DVDAexplorer is definitely needed to WAV first as opposed to using the FLAC command line in DVDAexplorer as the FLAC frontend wants to try and add tags on its own by guessing. Using the FLAC frontend by itself afterward on the WAVs I needed to un-check "Add tags" and then get a...

In mp3tag you have a "tag" row in the weiv when you are looking at the album. It should read FLAC(FLAC) not FLAC(id3v2) indicating that you have mixed tag formats, keep th flac files tagged with vorbis comments only.

A-ha - sorry I missed something. You need to rip from DAE to WAV files, THEN convert to FLAC seperately (I use DBPowerAmp or Foobar for this). This works perfectly for me. I've never tried to rip directly into FLAC using DAE. This may be the source of your problem.

Thanks for the instructions to do this people. I must say that this works quite well. Tried it for the first time and was able to rip the audio tracks off the DVD that came with Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe. So now I have 3 versions of the album: A) The CD version. B) The 5.1 DTS version C) I also let Audio Extracter create a 2 channel 48khz, 24bit flac based on the 5.1 dts data. B & C were both 48khz. Some questions: 1) When...