gharris999;540354 Wrote:
>
> I believe that with 7.6, "Group compilation albums together" is now the
> default.
> ...
> To generalize, is it the expected behavior that, unless a PERFORMER has
> at least one album where he/she is the sole PERFORMER, that PERFORMER
> remains ghettoized in the VA list?
>
Yes, that's exactly how the setting works. It's always worked like
that.
>
> I can see the desirability of this behavior: it reduces clutter. But
> it seems to me that it has one big limitation:
>
> Say I have an important PERFORMER who only appears on VA albums. Under
> the current scheme, that PERFORMER is only listed under VA albums, not
> as a separate artist. But if I tag an album with that PERFORMER as the
> -_album_artist_-, in order to indicate the artist's importance, wouldn't
> it make sense for the VA scanning logic to recognize that and "promote"
> that PERFORMER to be worthy of a separate artist listing?
>
> In my above example, if I tagged the "Harp Chamber Works - Montreal
> Chamber Players.flac" album with the album artist "Ropartz, J G", then
> I would expect to see the following artists listed in the all-artists
> list:
>
> "Various Artists"
> "Koechlin, C"
> "Ropartz, J G"
>
> Is this an easy-to-implement enhancement request? *-"Album Artists
> should always get an entry in the artists lists, regardless of their VA
> status"-*. With embedded cuesheets, identifying the album artist is
> easy: it's the 1st PERFORMER tag not associated with a track.
That's a bit of a gray area that I don't know has ever really been
resolved - a compilation album with an ALBUMARTIST. By my way of
thinking, if an album has an ALBUMARTIST then it should not be
considered a compilation. It "belongs" to the ALBUMARTIST, not to the
VA artist. It may be that an explicit COMPILATION tag overrides this.
> Or is this a can of worms? Would it be really difficult to get the
> current scanner to do this? Does the current db structure even
> acknowledge a contributor as an "album artist"?
>
> Would it be possible to implement this fairly easily by defining a new
> *-role-*: "album artist" e.g. "7" (or whatever number we're up to now
> in terms of roles) and any {contributor_album:role == 7, contributor}
> gets promoted to the artists list?
There already is an ALBUMARTIST role (5). Other artists performing on
tracks on an album with an ALBUMARTIST are assigned TRACKARTIST roles
(6).
I think there's one bit of logic that has changed in 7.6: If an album
has an ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists (or whatever string you have entered
in the setting for Various Artists name) then the album is now
considered a compilation, similar to tagging it with COMPILATION=1.
Prior to 7.6 if you set ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists then it was as if
you had created a new artist with then name "Various Artists".
--
JJZolx
Jim
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