>> 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 would do anything in this area in small incremental improvements. I think to start with, create a new "Browse Compilations" mode. This would show only albums that are tagged as compilations; should be fairly easy (Browse Compilations being equivalent of going to Browse Artists > Various Artists). Leave everything else as it is, so nothing is broken. Once this browse mode is accepted, can consider removing the special "Various Artists" entry that always appears at top of the artist list, so each artist (or album artist) appears in the list in alphabetical order. This second phase should simplify a lot of code, and provide a performance improvement. It won't break/fix people's tagging philosophy - what gets detected as a compilation. That's the bit that's likely to cause distress, if changed ;-) _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
