Philip Meyer;596131 Wrote: > > In my opinion, the Touch NP screen, which is showing a single song that > is playing, should only show the performing artist, NOT the album > artist. Or, at a minimum, the performing artist name should be > displayed first, followed by the album artist name, as the artist(s) > line does not even scroll, so often in these cases, you can't see the > actual artist name.
Your opinion is, as is often the case, correct. > > The Album Artist is used for grouping songs under a collective artist > name when browsing albums. It has little to do with a song display on > the Now Playing screen, especially when most of the time it is "Various > Artists" (for the album) and a song from such an album is performed by a > single artist. The SqueezePlay interface should, imho, not include AA. It adds noise. The only way I could see it being useful is if there was an addition line for tracks (where AA was specifically set) so it could display it as additional information... but that would still seem to be fluffy, and wasting precious display space. It should never display 'Album Artist: Various Artists', but in the case of tributes it could at least be useful. But the AA field is absolutely essential in general browsing usage. I have a ton of 'tribute' albums, and they really need to be filed under the tributee even though the tributee doesn't actually perform on them. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75308 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
