windowshade;191893 Wrote: > I've submitted 'Bug 4882' > (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4882) to document a new > bug which popped up in the wake of 'Bug 3824' > (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3824) (Revision 11663). > Basically, many albums featuring more than one contributor are not > being listed under the Album Artist. > > I've examined the database and I found that, with very occasional > exceptions, Role 5 (ALBUMARTIST) is not being entered into the > contributor_album table unless the compilation bit is set. That's as > far as my troubleshooting takes me. Anyone else notice this? Need more > info? > > Thanks, > Ron
You seem pretty knowledgeable, so I think it would be helpful to me and others (maybe the developers) if you spelled out exactly how you think slimserver intended to treat album artist (or albumartist). I expected certain behavior for compilation albums (compilation = 1) and am not getting it. You expect certain behavior when compilation = 0. Clarification on how the albumartist tag should be created for the various tag types would also be helpful. (TPE2 for id3 tags???, albumartist or album artist for flac, .???) My personal interest is in flac tags. When compilation = 0 and when an album has tracks with more than one artist, you seem to expect slimserver to automatically list the album under the albumartist. Do you expect the album also to be listed under all the artists appearing in the artist tags? How about when compilation = 1? (I would like there to be an option to list the album under only the albumartist.) How about when compilation = 0, all artist tags for an album include only one artist, but the artists arent the same for all tracks? There are lots of cases to consider. The responses to my post (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34490) indicates there is lots of disagreement/confusion about how slimserver should incorporate albumartist into its listings, and how those listings are (should be) affected by the slimserver behavior settings. All of this concerns how slimserver intended to treat albumartist as opposed to how it actually treats albumartist (i.e., bugs). I will now mention an idea for how slimserver should be designed. I am not a programmer, but my intuition suggests a very easy framework for compilation albums (compilation = 1). In the behavior settings, offer three options: (1) list album under each artist contributing to the album, (2) list album under artist xx where xx is a fixed string provided by the user (xx might be various artists or various or ???) , and (3) list under %xx% where %xx% is a tag name (the user could specificy %albumartist%, but could also specify %band% or any other tag). Is this a naïve suggestion? Thanks, Randy -- rmariger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34116
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