mherger wrote: > > > I would also like to see much of the compilation album confusion done > > away with once and for all. > > I would love to see that as well. But I doubt we'll be able to achieve > that noble goal: fix it for one use case and it'll break somebody > else's. I'll rather not touch it than have to explain to all the others > why we changed a working feature. Yes, it's working for many. > > But hey: if somebody can come up with a patch, I'll be happy to give it > a try.
I contend that you wouldn't break anything. You _would_ do things slightly differently, and I realize that even that can be upsetting for some people. The two browsing modes essentially give you everything that the prefs attempt to address. The existing compilation prefs and handling mostly accomplish _one_ thing: Suppressing artists who don't have 'full' albums from the artist list. The main thing that it would require is that every album be assigned one (possibly more) album artist if ALBUMARTIST is not explicitly stated in the tagging. This would be done by the LMS scanner. After that, one browse list merely pulls all contributors who have ALBUMARTIST roles and the other pulls all contributors who have ARTIST and TRACKARTIST roles (and it may turn out that the TRACKARTIST role could be eliminated with this approach). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101248 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
