mherger wrote: > > 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 > > Thanks - I need a break to digest this. Will get back to this soon. > -- > Michael
I very much agree with JJZolx's post and it is the basis of my post, which I hope you will take a moment to read again with JJ's comments now in mind: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?101264-Separate-browse-menus-for-album-artists-in-7-8-1&p=781055&viewfull=1#post781055 server already assigns an albumartist value to everything, whether one explicitly exists in the tagging or not. and btw, I do think any serious music user, which would cover just about all squeeze users imo, would and in fact do care about artist vs album artist. if that weren't true, then why does server already create only one artist list using basically albumartist values even when they may not be present in the tags? its been like that for years, and so clearly the original devs realized that the main browsing method needed to be brief, and they did not implement a more exhaustive method, which then is the point of whats being proposed in this thread. I also support the idea of cleaning up things under the hood, the hacks and elimination of unnecessary complicated queries, that JJ and Phil have mentioned. it seems to me that the data should be more straight forwardly represented in the DB, and not conflated when called upon. (eg. there is no reason to query comp status when creating artist lists of any type, etc) thx. Using: Win7 64 and LMS 7.8 & Duet with ipads and the logitech app, and ipeng on an ipod ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BJW's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101264 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
