>I want to see this album only under Frank Sinatra. It doesn't make >sense to have it mentioned under Aretha Franklin. I have already 30+ >albums by Aretha Franklin and adding one more with only one song for >which she is just in a duet it's really not interesting. > When browsing for all music by Aretha Franklin, it makes perfect sense to display all music by Aretha Franklin.
What if that album had many songs by Aretha Franklin. Some really special songs that don't appear anywhere else. What if you want to play all songs by Aretha Franklin? I have 1,896 singles (songs that I have not tagged as belonging to an album). In SqueezeCenter, these are all stored as ALBUM=No Album. If I browse to an artist, it displays all music by that artist, including a "No Album" album, listing only the songs (singles) that the artist performs on that are not on an album. For Tori Amos, I have 224 "No Album" songs. I do not want to browse Albums > No Album and wade through 1896 songs to find those 224. I also have songs that have composers/conductors/bands/orchestras. If I browse to Beethoven (being a composer), I want to see music that he composed, not only music that he is the primary performer on (the ARTIST tag). It works sensibly exactly how it is. And for me, it has always worked that way. >That's not right what you wrote in your answer. I just tried with 6.5.2 >and with 7.1. Both versions would list the album only under Frank >Sinatra. > Maybe there is a subtle change to the way that compilations/album artist tags are read/stored for your specific case. Eg. do you store your album artist in the BAND tag (TPE2 in mp3 id3v2.3 tags)? There was a change to support that in SC (wasn't supported in 6.5.2, not sure about 7.1) - before that, when you thought you had an album artist, you probably didn't - you would have had a Band contributor instead, which meant your "album artist" albums would have been listed as compilations. >7.3.2 lists the album with one song under each of the other artists as >well. So the behaviour is changed. Is this intentionally or just a side >effect of some other fixes? > It's always done it, and it is by design - intentional. If there's anyone else reading this thread, can they deny/confirm whether they have noticed a change in behaviour? There have been a few threads about this in the past, certainly before 7.3, requesting an enhancement to show only regular albums and not all music by the chosen artist. More people have said that they don't want that, than the people that have requested that behaviour. An option would be okay, but it would not be okay to lose the current behaviour because many people like it that way. But if anything, I'd prefer a filter choice on the album list page, a bit like the WebUI sort order choice. This is not be available on the SB classic UI interface though. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
