>Yes it does exactly this, I was just trying to say that maybe we >shouldn't call it "compilation album detection" because the important >stuff is really that it automatically sets "Various Artists" as the >ALBUMARTIST if there isn't an ALBUMARTIST tag an an album that contains >multiple artist. The fact that it also sets albums.compilation=1 is just >a plus. > Well, I think Album Artist AND Compilation come hand in hand. Compilation=1 isn't just a plus, it's equally important. In fact I'd say if anything Compilation=1 is the important bit, and the fact that an album artist is set is a plus. i.e. it would work equally well if an album ended up with Compilation=1 and no Album Artist. Any album that has Compilation=1 ends up being listed within the container that can be named anything you like, but by default called "Various Artists".
The one thing that I think would make most sense would be for a Browse Compilations that only shows a list of albums with Compilation=1, and thus Browse Artists would not need the special container for "Various Artists". This would probably speed up Browse Artists, as it would need less special logic to handle Various Artists. >The main reason to have this logic is to avoid the need to have >ALBUMARTIST tags in your compilation albums. > The reason for the logic is to keep songs grouped to the same album. The way that it achieves it by making the album a compilation/setting album artist; that's not the underlying reason. >Unless I've missed something, SBS "Artists" menu is exactly the same as >the "Album Artists" menu in other applications, at least if you have >ALBUMARTIST tags in all your music. If you don't have ALBUMARTIST tags, >SBS "Artists" menu probably behaves better than the "Album Artists" menu >in other applications > No, the Browse Artists list is not the same, in that it can be configured to contain different types of artists. i.e. you can list/hide Band/Orchestra, Composers and Conductors. You can show all artists, or hide single-track artists. The SBS interfaces are based around albums. You browse hierarchies to get to a collection of albums. Browse Artists is one of these - choose an artist to see their albums. I think it's quite unusual for a user to want to see a list of all artists, because the list can become too long. You can still access albums that a track-only artist appears on by searching for the artist name, or navigating to the artist from a song that he contributes on, but it's not normal for a user to need to see all artists. Not many apps provide an All Artists. >Then again, if there isn't a big interest from non advanced users, you >can already accomplish this with the Custom Browse plugin, it's just a >bit more advanced to setup. > I think providing it via Custom Browse is fine - I found it straightforward to create an All Artists list. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
