>How should it work? >Does it need to be fixed? >How? > I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean.
How I think it is meant to work is as follows: Browse Artists: shows artists; but the user has some control over what is displayed in the list. Can prevent the artist list from becoming too big (hide track artists). Can add Composers, Conductors, Band/Orchestras. Irrespective of the above, if browsing a particular artist, I think it always shows ALL albums that the artist has any involvement with. eg. If I show only album artists (no composers, conductors, etc), I may find Brian Eno in the list. If I browse to Brian Eno, I would see all his albums, and albums he appears as a contributor on (eg. compilation albums, guest artist on someone else's album), If he composed/conducted albums but is not the main artist, those albums would also be shown. I think that's nice behaviour. What I don't like, and I consider a bug, but perhaps others don't, is trying to navigate through those "extra" albums. e.g If I were to browse to Brian Eno from an album where he was a conductor, it would only show Brian Eno albums that he has conducted, and not all Brian Eno related albums. I would quite like separate Browse menus for each artist role, as you suggest. But also, a Browse All Artists menu. This is how I have configured SBS using Custom Browse. However, I don't often use Browse All Artists, because the list is too long, and if I know what I'm looking for, it's easier to search ;-) NB. When I do pull tags from a metadata source, I check them and delete any Conductor or Composer details for a popular music album. e.g. Saying Chris Martin is the composer of a coldplay album is not very useful, and Beatles albums have a mixture of Lennon/McCartney, Lennon and McCartney, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, etc. Not very useful - I just clear them all. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
