mherger wrote: > My response to your question therefore would be: no, let's not try to be > > smart. If the user wants to be able to browse by ALBUMARTIST, he shall > fix his tags. If we try to guess, then we'll always fail for some users. > > If we strictly follow the user's data, then it's up to him to create the > > data he wants to get.
I disagree. In LMS, an album is either: a) detected as a compilation, has no AA tagging, so the album artist is the VA b) detected as a compilation, has AA tagging, so the album artist is as given in the AA tagging c) not a compilation and has AA tagging, so the album artist is as given in the AA tagging d) none of the above In d) all artists on all tracks in the album _must_ be the same. There's no other alternative. It could be a single artist (as will be the case the vast majority of the time) or it could multiple artists. All the same. In this case, the album artist is, quite simply, the same as the artists on any single track. Using the contributor column in the albums table (which could be eliminated) is a hack, and fails in the same way that if fails now when displaying the artist for albums in browse lists. It's not a matter of "trying to be smart", which you imply is trying to interpret the data as something that it may not be. It's a matter of trying understand the data you're working with. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
