Philip Meyer wrote: > Regarding "Browse Album Artists" and "Browse Artists", these are just > names to represent the browse modes on the UI, and I assume don't > directly reflect how the list of artists is returned.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, but it would affect how they're returned. It would be greatly simplified, but it would be different. The 'Album Artist' list would simply be every contributor having an albumartist role in the contributor_albums table. The 'All Artists' list would be all contributors with ARTIST roles in contributor_tracks. > I would leave the current "Browse Artists", rather than rename to > "Browse Album Artists". This means display only artists that appear at > album context - don't display artists that only appear on occasional > tracks. It doesn't mean you would need to tag every album with an > "Album Artist"; the application can do the same as it currently does; > include "artist" or "album artist" roles, and ignore "track artist"; or > the scanner could auto-populate album artist if there isn't one set > (should improve performance of browsing, at the cost of increased scan > time). > > A new "Browse All Artists" would be better for the other menu name, > which would show any artist, no matter what role they have? Yes "All Artists" is probably best and then the plain "Artists" would go away. But I think "Album Artists" is a very well-established concept in many music applications, so is appropriate. The browse menu would then look like this: Album Artists All Artists Albums Genres Years etc. As mentioned above, this wouldn't require explicit ALBUMARTIST tagging. Virtually all of the logic to do this during a scan is already in place. Albums that are not either deemed compilations or don't have explicit ALBUMARTIST tags must have all artists the same on every track, so it would be easy to determine the album artist role simply by retrieving the artists from any track on the album. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
