Philip Meyer;619388 Wrote: > >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. > >
That's nice behaviour unless you have the composer tag populated on your pop/rock. Then your 15 Dylan albums appear in amongst 150 albums with a Dylan cover on. You press play on "David Bowie" and you get a Nirvana cover (I want to hear David Bowie). Dylan is an extreme example, but it was enough of a problem in several well-covered artists (Stevie Wonder, Smokey, Paul McCartney) for me to wipe out all my composer tags. I don't mind seeing albums where they're a contributer lister (ie a track artist role) but albums where somebody's covered their song - or just had a song written for them by the - shouldn't be in the Artist list imho. M. -- InTheBath ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InTheBath's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86452 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
