Philip Meyer wrote: > > >I also think that assigning an explicit ALBUMARTIST role for each album > >will speed up generation of browse album pages. Noe that this role is > >exactly what we see today when we browse albums - it's what's displayed > >on the "by" line for the album. > > Not necessarily; two things to think about: > > (a) "List albums by Band" > > LMS can be configured to show "band". If no specific album artist tag > is defined, "band" is displayed. > > i.e. when displaying "<album> by <artist>" artist is: > > 1. The Album Artist if one is defined. > 2. Otherwise a band name if "list albums by band" is ticked. > 3. Otherwise the list of artists appearing on every song on an album. > > The scanner could take on this logic; if "List albums by band" is ticked > in settings, then set the album artist to the band name instead of > artist name (and if there are multiple, make it "Various Artists"). > However, the side effect of this is that changing the option would > require a full rescan to recalculate the album artist for every album.
Doesn't that simply make the BAND tag work as ALBUMARTIST? Maybe I'm missing something. > (b) There can be multiple album artists for an album That doesn't pose a problem. If you're listing albums and the album has two ALBUMARTISTs, it would be displayed something like: No Quarter 1994 Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and in the browse Album Artists list, both individual names would appear. I doubt if this behavior is much different than already exists. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
