>Not really having to do with the Now Playing screen, but one problem
>I've always felt with the scanner/database is that no album artist is
>assigned to albums that have none in the metadata. This makes the
>server do a lot of work to come up with one to show for the album, as
>the artists for all tracks have to be examined. It would simplify the
>queries a lot if, when there's no explicit ALBUMARTIST for an album,
>the scanner would set it the same as the ARTIST, or to the VA
>pseudo-artist for compilations with no ALBUMARTIST. The server is going
>to do this anyway, but it wouldn't have to do so every time that the
>album information is shown. It would also enable a simple 'Browse Album
>Artists' that is sorely missing.
>
Doesn't the scanner do this, always storing an album artist in the album record
(albums.contributor), but doesn't always store as a contributor role in the
link table?
So every album has a single album artist id, whereas some albums could have
multiple album artists if it were in the link table.
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