Philip Meyer;381706 Wrote: > It's still working okay for me. > > There's an option to list songs by each artist, or "Group compilation > albums together". You need to pick the later. This should not require > a rescan. > > Track artists (artists that are contributors when there is an album > artist tag on a song) are then not displayed in the main Browse Artists > list, unless they also have regular albums. > > When browsing an artist, all albums that the artist has involvement on > will be listed. That includes regular albums, compilation albums, > guest performances on albums by another artist, etc. > > You can sort the albums for that artist by "artist, album", and the > albums will be sorted by the album artist if there is one, so all > compilation album appearances would be sorted together under "Various > Artists", which is almost what you want. > > eg. "Browse Artists > R.E.M." then sort by "artist, album": > Automatic For The People by R.E.M. > Green by R.E.M > Murmur by R.E.M. > Best of the 80's by Various Artists > Best of the 90's by Various Artists
Thanks, but what you describe is exactly not how it used to work. What you describe is the behaviour of the aggregating for various artists. Adding the "AlbumArtist" tag use to override the normal behaviour and only list the album under the "albumartist" (whatever that would be) but not under the track artists (not even if they had full albums listed). I have thousands of albums and under one artists I want only to see the 5-10 albums have on that artist. If I get listed also 20 compilations for wich the artist as only one or two songs it makes it really difficult to browse. Often my wife and guests at our house ask the same question: "Why is there only one song in this album?". That's because is not what people would expect to see when browsing one given artist's albums (unless as I wrote above those were grouped one level below under a "Also appears on..." entry. Also it doesn't make any sense to me that those single tracks album are listed only if the track artist has also some full album in the database, otherwise are not. Either I should be able to always see not complete albums listed or I shoudl be able to turn this behaviour completely off. As it was before at least I could control this myself. If I wanted the behaviour you describe I did not use the "albumartist" tag, but if I wanted the behaviour I described then I just used the albumartist tag (for instance for albums with duets I am interested in listing the album only under the main artist on not under every artist that contributed). Does anybody know if this change in behaviour has happened by istake or was intentional? Thanks -- Aguida ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aguida's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9285 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57922 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
