>Thanks, but what you describe is exactly not how it used to work.
>
It is exactly how it has always worked for me.

>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).
>
It still does for me.

>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.
>
It's always functioned like that.

I actually like it like that;  I hardly ever browse to compilations and play 
them, so there would be some music by my favourite artists that I'd never think 
of playing if they weren't available when I browse to that artist.

As I said, you can sort albums by artist, and then compilations would be 
grouped somewhere near the bottom of the list.

Alternatively, you could go to Music Library > Browse Albums, sort by artist, 
and then navigate to your chosen artist.  You will see artists' albums grouped 
together, and compilations under "Various Artists".

Alternatively, you can install CustomBrowse plugin, that defines new Browse 
menus (or you can configure your own), such that only regular albums are 
displayed when browsing an artist.

>"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
>
Browsing to an artist displays all music by that artist.  I would expect all 
songs that an artist has been involved with to be listed under any artist that 
I browse to.
If I only wanted to play a regular album by the artist, I'd probably still use 
Browse Artist and simply ignore the albums that I know are compilations, if I 
wanted full albums.  It's not exactly hard. Or I'd Browse Albums, Years, Genre, 
etc.  But I'd always expect Browse Artist to display all music by an artist.

>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. 
>
SqueezeCenter is working exactly the same as any other music library software 
I've used.  eg. iTunes.  Sort by artist, or filter by artist, and you will see 
all music by that artist, irrespective of whether they have an album, album 
artist, compilation, or no tags other that artist and song name (eg. singles).

>As it was before at least I could control this myself.
>
It's always worked this way.

Phil
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