I made this feature request some time ago. I still think it is a good idea. I like to be able to see in one place all the albums to which an artist has contributed in some way.
> In the screen on the SBC showing an Artist's Albums divide the display > of > albums into four distinct sections: > > The first section (albums attributed to the artist) contains albums > where > ALBUMARTIST contains (not equals but contains) the artist OR where the > artist > is (the only or one of) the (track) ARTIST on all songs. Display the > ALBUMARTIST (at least if it does not equal the artist). > > The second section (albums primarily attributed to another artist where > the > artist is only a contributing artist on one or more songs) contains > albums (not > displayed earlier on the screen) which are not marked as compilations > by SC and > where the artist is (the only or one of) the (track) ARTIST on one or > more > songs. For these albums display also the ALBUMARTIST. > > The third section (compilation albums where the artist appears on one > or more > songs) contains albums (not displayed earlier on the screen) which are > marked > as compilations by SC and where the artist is (the only or one of) the > (track) > ARTIST on one or more songs. For these albums display Various > artists, or > the name designated for various artists in SC by the user. > > The fourth section (albums where the artist is only composer of one or > more > songs) contains albums (not displayed earlier on the screen) where > COMPOSER > contains (not equals but contains) the artist. Display if possible the > (track) > ARTIST as well as ALBUMARTIST (or Various artists if it is a > compilation), if different. > > Sorting should be done within each section, with ascending by YEAR/DATE > as > default. > > The divider bars between the sections could read (where XX is the > artist's > name): > > XX > > Track artist: XX > > Compilations: XX > > Composer: XX > > AT LEAST, if the above is too complicated, place the albums where the > artist is > the ALBUMARTIST on top of the screen. > > That would make it easier to immediately find the albums by an artist > which is > often covered by other artists, like, for instance, Kris Kristofferson, > where > the first album by him I have shows up first as album number 9 on the > screen. > Another example where I find it hard to get an overview of an artist's > albums, > which is what one might expect that screen is supposed to do, is when a > group > member, who has composed the group's songs, has left the group and > started a > subsequent solo career. The Jam and Paul Weller would be an example, > where a > lot of Jam albums appear on top of the screen. Fleetwood Mac and > Lindsey > Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are other examples where group albums are > interspersed with solo albums. > > I would like to use this functionality also on iPeng, so this might > really be a > database issue.> > > > > > > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12676 -- vagskal 2 x SB3 (wired), Receiver (wired), Boom (wireless), Controller, iPeng on iPhone 4 & iPad, muso on remote computer running Win 7 64-bit | 7.5.4 on Win XP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vagskal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20778 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86452
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