posting across from bug coments for feedback from wider audience, which of the following does anyone else recognise?
I am not sure that adding "albumartist" to the list of track artists is necessarily the correct fix. I interpreted the original bug being to show all track artists (with some currently missing from multiple tags). Thre are three cases (from the forums) where showing AlbumArtist in the list would be 'extra and unnecessary' information but not an exact match to any Artist info. 1) Guest Artists where guest artist and Album Artist are consolidated in one tag (to preserve nature of relationship 'and','featuring','with' et. al. e.g. AlbumArtist="Johnny Cash" Artist="Johnny Cash and Flea" should only see Track Artist this could be avoided by multiple tags at expense of relationship detail. 2) Conolsolidating Artist Names some use AlbumArtist to show a consistent name where a band/artist has used a variety of names over time. The 'correct' names is kept in Track Artist e.g. AlbumArtist ="Bruce Springsteen" Artist="Bruce Sprinsteen & the E-Street Band" Album="Live 1975-85" should only see Track Artist, but all selection is as Bruce Springsteen 3) Various Artists some use AlbumArtist to provide granularity for compilations e.g. AlbumArtist="Various - Sixties" AlbumArtist="Various - Seventies" for each track, should only see Track Artists. -- DigitalMitch 2 * SB3, 1 * Boom, 2 * SBR, 1 * Radio controlled by IR, SBC and iPeng on iPhone 7.5.0 Beta running on WHS on HP MediaSmart (EX470) upgraded to 2G RAN http://www.last.fm/user/digimich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DigitalMitch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15999 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75308 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
