Are any of you using your Artist and Artist Album tags differently to achieve a particular sorting/identification behavior? I've just started re-ripping all of my CD's to lossless uncompressed vs dbpoweramp's lossless compression level 5 which I choose initially and was wondering how I might be able to use these tags differently. During my initial ripping I set both of these to be the same which has caused issues for sure in Artist view when it comes to my soundtrack albums which feature tracks from differing artists. This always causes those albums to be split apart so if I want to listen to all songs from the album I have to access it via Default view in order to get at the folder so all songs get loaded at once rather than me bouncing all of the place in Artist view from artist to artist trying to piece the album together.
In what format are you ripping? Flac? Wav? Anything else?
DBPoweramp has Flac compression level 0, which basically means the uncompressed WAV file with a layer of tags around it.
Advantages: tags that actually are picked up, uncompressed WAV, low processor activity because the file doesn't need to be decompressed.
Disadvantage: large files.
I rip everyting in compression level 1 or 2. Considerably smaller files, no loss in sound whatsoever, still a smaller load on the processor.
About the tagging: there is a separate tag: "album artist". Fill this with the main artist under which you would like to see the album listed, and the entire album should show up under that name. Since I am not home right now I cannot tell you how to get there in DBPoweramp... I suggest you download
Tag&Rename, by far the ultimate tagging tool.