Bugzilla – Bug 2553
Multiple Album Tags Not Possible in Slimserver
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
As described in bug 1776 the option "multiple items in tags" does at the moment not work for albums titles. For classical CDs having multiple symphonies or sonatas each comprising several movements (tracks) I tag each symphony/sonata as separate albums, i.e. all tracks (movements) of each symhony or sonata has an album tag with the symphony/sonata name. The original name of the CD, which is usually only a list of the work names (like Symphonies No. 5 and 6) is in these cases not important (and also not stored in the album tags). However, if the classical CDs has a special name like e.g. "Lang Lang at Carnegie Hall" I would like to store the original album name as well as the name of work (symphony/sonata) and to be able to browse in slimserver using the original name as well as the symphony/sonata name. I tried to set two album tags for each of the concerned tracks in order to achieve that slimserver displays two different albums but there is only shown one albums in the format "first album name / second album name". Isn't it possible to have slimserver show two different albums in this case?
Dieter, how is this NOT a dupe of 1776? Please try to avoid creating new bugs when existing reports exist. You can vote for it or add your comments to existing reports. If this is distinctly different (and I've somehow completely missed the difference) would it be possible to clarify and reword the summary to be a little more specific?
I don't think that this is a dupe of bug 1776. Bug 1776 describe that the option "multiple items in tags" does not work for albums (although it is described that it should). This bug describes that Slimserver does not allow to use multiple albums tags that are _manually_ set (not using the multiple item in tags option but by creating two different albums tags. Isn't that something different?
Dan: Why aren't we treating multiple instances of the same tag the same as a tag with a multiple item separator?
Huh?
Album = title1 ; title2; title 3 should supposedly be the same as: ALBUM = title1 ALBUM = title2 ALBUM = title3 of course, if bug 1776 exists, then treating multiple ALBUM fields as if it were a multiple title with separator will make no difference, since that feature is broken according to bug 1776.
At the moment both methods produce not the same result: Album = title1 ; title2; title 3 produces as album "title1 ; title2; title 3" even if ";" is defined as multiple item separator since this does not work for album titles according to bug 1776. That means you can chose any separator you want but the original album is not changed. ALBUM = title1 ALBUM = title2 ALBUM = title3 however, produces as album "title1 / title2 / title3". It seems that at the moment slimserver concatenates multiple albums with an " / " between them. With both ways you are at the moment not able to assign a track to multiple separate albums.
This will likely never be possible. The current behavior is a work around so that we don't crash. A track can only belong to one album.
Couldn't you re-think that opinion? As mentioned in my first post in this bug report I tag all my classical albums according to an earlier recommondation from kdf in a way that e.g. each symphony is defining a separate album even if there are more than one symphony on a physical album. Of course this is a work around solution but is at the moment the only reasonable method for me to handle classical music. For classical CDs having titles like "Horowitz in Moskow" it would however be necessary to assign the tracks of a sonata/symphony (in general works comprising more than one track) to both the "virtual" album as described above (to have this sonata listed in the album list) as well as to the "real" album (to have the "real" album name also listed). As long as there is no other special handling of classical music possible this would be an almos perfect solution. Another point, several times mentioned in the forum, is that assigning a track to two different albums could reduce the necessary physical disk storage. If you have e.g. all CDs of "The Beatles" and in addition some "Best of Beatles compilations" (like the red or blue album) then you could assign all songs from these compilations to the original album as well as to the best of album. Thus, you would not need to store all songs twice but only once and would save a lot of disc space (in particular if you are using flac). Having these reasons in mind, don't you think it is worth to make it possible that a track can belong to more than one album (either by using multiple album tags or by using the "multiple items in tag" option)? Dieter
Having multiple album tags would also enable to define "virtual albums". For example, if you have several albums of The Beatles you can create a "My Best of the Beatles" album by simple adding to your favourite Beatles songs of different albums an second album tag comprising "My Best of the Beatles" (in addition to the original album tag). You will then have an album "My Best of the Beatles" which is in fact a selection of your complete Beatles albums. That would be great!
*** Bug 3836 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***