erland wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps it could be implemented such that Artist is used as Album Artist > > for those albums where there is no Album Artist tag included (and it's > > not a "various artists" compilation album). JRiver Media Center handles > > things that way.> > > > This was my first thought also, I'm fairly sure this would work for > the top level menus.
Yes, this is what I meant. As I said in the follow-up post, it should not _require_ ALBUMARTIST tags. LMS should assign the ALBUMARTIST role to the album based on artist. If the artist(s) for every track on the album are the same, then that artist is also the album artist. If not, then the same VA logic in place currently will mark the album as a compilation and the album artist will be the VA pseudo-artist. And the same existing logic would be used when an ALBUMARTIST tag is present: the album becomes a non-compilation, regardless of individual artists on tracks. > However, the problem is what to do with the "Genres" menu, we would > either have to choose one of them (which will make some people upset) or > we would have to create an intermediate menu (which will make other > people upset). Yes, that will need to be given some thought. My initial thought would be to list all artists. Note that there's an 'All Albums' link under each genre. I don't know for certain, but I assume that compilation albums with multiple genres (hence trackartists) will be listed there and then filtered as you drill down. I don't tend to tag albums with multiple genres, so I'd have to investigate this. But, yeah, this question needs to be answered. > In my mind, TRACKARTIST could still be of interest for artists which I > never want to show in the main browse menus but still be able to see > when I look at the song details for an individual song. There wouldn't be any artists who never show under 'Browse Artists'. I think that a TRACKARTIST just becomes (or, more exactly, remains) an ARTIST on the track. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101264 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
