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here’s what you can do about the compilation thing. copy all your artist field tags into the composer field. rename the artist to be “various artists” or “smoot, bob” or however you want it to be sorted. then hide the artist column in the list view and just show the composer column.

so you fill the composer field for every song you have? blah! anyway, my ipod would still show the wrong thing, and i listen to it more than my computer.

but you don’t look at the screen too much when it’s playing, right? it’s more important to have the albums grouped properly. and it’s not like you have to copy for all the songs individually, you can do an artist at a time.

anyway, it worked for me.

that’s true. plus, i just ripped a compilation and itunes filled in the composer field for every song. so your method isn’t much work at all. thanks, buddy.

Ben inspired me to add cover art to my iTunes library. I assumed it did some linking between audio files and image files, but upon further inspection, it looks like it embeds the images in the audio files themselves. So now each audio file is bigger and my iPod had to download everything all over again. Sucky.

I’m not blaming Ben, of course.

I choose to blame Ben.

I’m still a fan of the ol’ qtplay, I think it’s got the smallest interface I’ve found so far: [~/mp3s]> qtplay kings\ of\ leon\ -\ youth\ \&\ young\ manhood/ Welcome to Quicktime Player by Sarah Childers kings of leon - youth & young manhood/01-red morning light.mp3 kings of leon - youth & young manhood/02-happy alone.mp3

plus you get to organize the files yourself so they’re arranged however you like, and backgrounding it lets you keep listening while you log out (don’t ask me why I have to log out so much). technology!