>I'm sorry but if it says ARTIST A then listing all albums that they >feature on is fine but if it says ALBUM ARTIST A and you click the link >it should list only the albums where A is the album artist, exactly as >it always has done. > Why should clicking an Artist show all artists, but clicking album artist show only album artists? Where is the sense in that -
>Historically you've had the ARTIST as the default search, but then if >you click on the ALBUM ARTIST field within an artist you can refine >your search to get only the albums where they are listed as the album >artist, excluding anything else they just happen to feature on. > And in most people's library, the result was ridiculous. If an album is only tagged with an album artist when it is needed, only those albums would be returned. Where an artist is the only artist on an album, and no album artist tag is present, SBS knows that this is an album by that artist, but doesn't set a specific album artist contributor (there is no "album artist: [name]" listed on the album). So, displaying a list of albums where the artist is the album artist would not display these, even though really they are the album artist (detected automatically by the scanner). Similarly, showing tracks by an artist would not show tracks where the artist was a track artist! >Now it still shows the album artist link but when you click on it it >returns all contributions, which means the link isn't working as it should. > It is working as intended. It's showing what artist is the album artist, if there is one. When you click the artist link, it's taking you to the Artists > [artist name], as if you navigated there manually yourself. >The proper behaviour doesn't preclude you searching how you want to. >The current behaviour simply means that the refinement searches don't >work properly. > The old behaviour wasn't correct. In the Web UI, if you clicked an album artist, it took you to a page where the breadcrumb trail was "Artists > [artist name] >", and didn't report that it was filtered down in any way. So you had to remember the context of what you came from to make sense of the list. If you then navigated down through the library to a link, it didn't apply the previous filter to it. eg. if you clicked Composer: xxx, and then clicked on an album by that composer, and clicked a link Conductor: xxx, it wouldn't show albums where the artist was a composer and a conductor. And I think the issue for the developers was that each type of SBS player interface worked differently; there were bugs that meant that making each one work consistently was hard. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
