Philip Meyer;601784 Wrote: > >> Are you sure? I don't think I'm seeing this. I think I have added > >> COMPILATION=1 to all of my compilation albums, rather than > auto-detect > >> compilations as I sometimes load them into iTunes. Maybe this makes > a > >> difference? > > > >The genre behaviour I am sure of (at least I see track artists from VA > >albums; I have not checked for track artists appearing only on normal > >albums). I have also compilation 1 set for all my VA albums. > > > I examined a compilation album for me in my MySQL DB. I have entered > COMPILATION=1 and don't have an Album Artist tag. In the DB, the > tracks have contributor role = 1 (standard Artist role), NOT role = 6 > (Track Artist). I think the DB only holds the artists as Track Artist > role when the album has an Album Artist. When COMPILATION=1, it > doesn't set an album artist contributor role. > > Not sure that helps at all, but thought I'd include that as an example > in case it sparks any ideas from any one. > > Just a thought: what setting value have you chosen for the option: "My > Music > Filter genres at the album & track level."? Maybe that makes a > difference?
This is on 7.5.3, i.e. MySQL. When I said track artist I meant an artist (only) appearing (alone or with another artist) on an album with a compilation 1 tag (and no album artist tag for the cases I checked). I do not know what contributor role the artist has been assigned in the SBS database. I have never understood the difference, if any, between the artist and track artist roles. In genres I never really browse the artist list, which I find superfluous, but rather go directly to all albums (or use the shallow CB genre menu). I have set the option to show only songs in the selected genre for an artist. The two examples I just checked with an artist only appearing on one track on an album with an album artist set, one album with compilation 1 set and one without compilation tag, did not show up in the appropriate genre artist list. Thus, it seems like only (what I call) track artists show up in that list along with album artists on all albums, with or without compilation 1 set. An album artist (a poet, Nils Ferlin) only appearing as an album artist on one compilation 1 album (and as composer on several albums) showed up in that list but is not shown in the standard "master" artist list. -- vagskal 2 x SB3 (wired), Receiver (wired), Boom (wireless), Controller, iPeng on iPhone 4 & iPad, muso on remote computer running Win 7 | 7.5.3 on Win XP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vagskal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20778 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84475 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
