How should I properly tag "Best Of" Albums? iTunes 11
I've finally buckled down and decided to properly sort, tag, correct all my music in iTunes. It was going fairly easily, till I hit a snag... "Best Of" albums... I understand how to make complation albums (movie soundtracks and such), but what I'm not sure how to do, or if it's possible, is tag the album and show the original album the song came from? My example: I've got all the Black Sabbath studio albums tagged nicely, then went to start tagging their complation album "We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'N' Roll". Everything was fine to a point, (Artist: check, Album: check, Album Artist: check and on and on...) But wait a minute, the first 3 tracks were from the same ORIGINAL (studio) album, then the next 3 are from a different album.
How am I able to list the original album, whilst catergorizing it under the Best hits/complation album? Moreover, keep it grouped with the same artist field and not various artists?
If you have not run it yet, I would use the PPBM6 Benchmarking: http://ppbm6.com/index.html
A newer version is in the works, but I have not heard the anticipated release date.
When you have run the benchmark, submit the results, and then compare your performance to other systems, in the site's spreadsheet.
Good luck,
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