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Can't get itunescompilation tag to work - confused
mikebarnes:
--- Quote from: JimH on December 02, 2008, 06:29:43 am ---Did you try MC13? It has a lot of changes for iPods.
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That will be my next step, but upgrading to MC12 was fairly traumatic so I'm taking a breather. :-)
Frobozz:
--- Quote from: mikebarnes on December 03, 2008, 03:23:22 am ---Just to make things absolutely clear, do the individual artists from collections show up in the "Artists" menu on your iPod? They do here (with MC12, but not with iTunes) and getting rid of them is what I'm focussing on at the moment.
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Here is what my iPod does for compilations artists:
If an artist only exists on a compilation album then that artists does not show up in the artists menu on the iPod.
If an artists exists in both a compilation album and a regular full artist album then that artist shows up in the artists menu, and if I click through that artist I see both the full artist albums by that artist and compilation album but only the songs by that artist.
I'm using an iPod Classic 80GB. I'm using the latest build of MC12.
--- Quote ---The "Album Artist (auto)" column for compilations contains "Various Artists" because that's my preferred name and I put it that in the "Album Artist" tag.
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That may be what is confusing MC. Try deleting the "Various Artists" and let MC do its default "(Multiple Artists)" for the "Album Artist (auto)" tag.
mikebarnes:
--- Quote from: Frobozz on December 03, 2008, 11:55:15 am ---Try deleting the "Various Artists" and let MC do its default "(Multiple Artists)" for the "Album Artist (auto)" tag.
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Good suggestion. I tried that, but it didn't make any difference. (To be safe I always initialize the iPod using MC and then transfer all the tracks again.)
Frobozz:
I'm at a loss. Unless maybe one of the iTunes created tags is messing things up??
I have never let iTunes touch my library. I have no iTunes generated tags. The only thing I have let iTunes do is update the firmware.
You can try taking a compilation album and cleaning out all tags. Then retag the album using Media Center. Then see if it gets properly identified as a compilation when you sync it to the iPod.
Whatever you find out, it could possibly be considered a bug since it's causing such difficulty. Figure out what it is and hopefully it will be something that is fixed in MC13.
mikebarnes:
--- Quote from: Frobozz on December 03, 2008, 11:13:24 pm ---I'm at a loss. Unless maybe one of the iTunes created tags is messing things up??
I have never let iTunes touch my library. I have no iTunes generated tags. The only thing I have let iTunes do is update the firmware.
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Interesting idea but I don't let iTunes touch my library either. My files are WMA and when I add them to my iTunes library, iTunes converts them to a format that it can understand, creating an entirely new directory structure. So in addition to the directories for MC that I listed earlier, containing WMA files, there are further directories for iTunes containing m4a files:
M:\iTunes Music\Popular\Pink Floyd\The Wall
M:\iTunes Music\Popular\Various Artists\Eighties Legends
iTunes obviously influences the tags in the m4a files in "iTunes Music", but not the tags in the wma files in "Jukebox Music" that MC is looking at.
And I clean out the iPod before every test. So I don't think iTunes has any influence on what I'm seeing.
--- Quote from: Frobozz on December 03, 2008, 11:13:24 pm ---Whatever you find out, it could possibly be considered a bug since it's causing such difficulty. Figure out what it is and hopefully it will be something that is fixed in MC13.
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Yes, I'm beginning to realise that that's the only avenue left open to me.
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