>No, it's different in that today's Artists list only lists artist with >one of the roles ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, TRACKARTIST, plus whatever you >checked in the preferences (COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR, BAND). If you drill >down you would get the same selection iirc. > Hmm, you're right. Didn't know that! Artist, album artist and track artist content is always listed, and I have Band checked in prefs. I typically have composers included in artist tags, so I do see these, but just found one example where I have tagged conductor=Chopin (prefs for conductors unticked), but I can browse to Chopin and see albums where he is an artist, but not where he is tagged as the composer or conductor only.
I think this is a bit odd, and it leads to trouble with search results (see other thread). Search is looking for all contributor roles, listing matches as artists, and then they are not always browsable. >Now if you want to browse by COMPOSER only, we should do the same: only >show albums/tracks in which the contributor has taken that role. Again, I think it would be good that there is a single artist's albums page that allows all works (of any involvement type) to be displayed. Perhaps in this case composers would be displayed at the top, followed by other contributions, or with a way to enable/disable display of a single role or all roles. I'm not the best person to comment on ways to browse classical music collections; there's probably not a nice fit to please everyone anyway, but in my case with a modest collection of classical material, I'd prefer to see all related albums for an artist, rather than too few. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
