erland wrote: > Trying to think about this on a higher level, without involving how the > music is tagged, wouldn't this be true ? > > ALBUM ARTISTS[/B] - CONTAINS ALL ARTISTS THAT HAVE RELEASED AN ALBUM > UNDER THEIR NAME > *ARTISTS* - CONTAINS ALL ARTISTS THAT HAVE BEEN THE MAIN ARTIST ON A > TRACK ON ANY ALBUM > > TO ME THIS MAKES SENSE, BECAUSE THEN IT WOULD BE LOGICAL FOR ME WHEN I > WANT TO LOOK FOR THE MUSIC. > - IF I WANTED TO FIND AN ALBUM, I WOULD LOOK IN *ALBUM ARTISTS > - If I wanted to find a track, I would look in *Artists* > > This would in my mind mean that compilations could be listed in: > ALBUM ARTISTS/VARIOUS ARTISTS > And under each specific artist performing on the compilation under: > ARTISTS > > I still feel that it's pointless to have a *Artists/Various Artists* men > because the purpose of the b]Artists* menu is to find a track, not an > album, if you want to find an album you would use the *Album Artists* > menu. > > The exception for all this is classical music, because in a classical > music library you would likely want to find the album by composer and > composers only exists in *Artists* menu, but this is easily solved by > using Michaels plugin to add a top level *Composers* menu and restrict > it to music in the genre Classical. > > There is obviously many different opinions here, if we want Michael to > implement something when he is back after the weekend we probably need > to find a way which we can use to get an agreement. Any thoughts how to > best do this ?
Where do I find artist that never been the main artist on any album ? I do think I have several of those artists ? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101264 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
