Philip Meyer;698559 Wrote: 
> The thing is, you can have more than one album artist per album.

Makes no difference. The database is set up for M:M relationships as it
is (albums : contributor_album : contributor). If every album had an
album artist or -artists- in the database, it would still take just one
query to generate a list of albums with album artists.

> It is possible to retrieve the correct info in less queries. eg. one
> query to return a list of unique artists for all songs on an album, so
> would require 1 query for the list of 100 albums, and 100 queries (1
> per album) to get a list of the artists on each album.

I haven't looked at it in a while. At one time it appeared to be doing
a query for every track on every album being listed. It may be smarter
now. Still, there's no reason to be doing dozens of queries to generate
a simple album list that also shows the album artists.


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