what exactly is the "compliation" switch/tag for various-art
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I use MP3TAG to create an ITUNESCOMPILATION field with a value of "1" for compilation disks. When I add these to my ITUNES library, ITUNES recognizes that these are compilations automatically. Note that there is another field simply called COMPILATION that also takes on a value of 0 or 1. This is created in my case when I rip CDs in dbpoweramp and the CD is a compilation of some sort (soundtrack, etc.). ITUNES does not do anything with the plain COMPILATION tag. In fact, I use mp3tag to scan my files and if the compilation field is set to 1, it creates a ITUNESCOMPILATION with value of 1. The code for the mp3tag action is:
$if($neql(%itunescompilation%,),%itunescompilation%,%compilation%)
The only effect of the ITUNESCOMPILATION is that these albums are listed under compilations in the artist listings. Otherwise, the album would be listed mulitple times under each artist on the compilation. Some people like the former, some the latter. There is also a setting on the IPOD to list compilation albums under a separate compilation heading or separately for each artist.
See my posting part way down in this thread for lots more info on doing things to mp3/aac files before importing into ITUNES that might be useful. In short, I turn Album replaygain values into soundcheck values, etc.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofive...php/t61524.html