>Also, I want the old functionality to
>be able to see albums by an ALBUMARTIST only, not all the albums they
>feature on. Why this was removed I don't know, but when you have
>artists that feature on lots of albums and have lots of albums in their
>own right, sometimes you want to be able to filter these. In the (good)
>old days you could click on the Album Artist hyperlink and only see
>their actual albums.
That seems the wrong approach to me. I found it very confusing to click an
artist link and only see partial content because it was always filtering out
based on the type of contributor role that was clicked. e.g. if playing random
songs and a song is playing where the artist was a guest performer, and you
wanted to see other material by that artist, navigating to the artist only
showed other songs where the artist was a guest performer on an album.
I'd expect that clicking an artist name to always show all work involving that
artist.
Once there, it would sometimes be handy to provide a way to filter/sort/group.
e.g. set the default view to provide the list of all albums that the artist has
some involvement in, but sorted or grouped such that you see normal albums
first, followed by guest appearances (e.g often compilation albums). Or when
viewing a list of albums by an artist, provide a context action to:
Show albums >
All
Normal albums
Guest Appearances
Compositions
Conducted
Either radio buttons (pick a single mode for display), or checkboxes (choose
the types of involvement to display).
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