>From about a month ago: mherger wrote: > > > The contributor names shown for albums aren't always complete or > > correct. That was discussed recently in another thread. > > We should get a list of places where album contributors are shown, how > they are shown and how they should be shown. This would allow us to > identify the places which need to be fixed. But that would be *worth a > thread on its own* (and would not be addressed by me before August).
Ok, so here's that thread. There are two related problems. 1. Only a single artist (from the column albums.contributor) is ever shown for the artist of an album. This works fine when you have just a single ALBUMARTIST or ARTIST tag on an album, but when you have more than one, it's incomplete. For example: ALBUM=Raising Sand ARTIST=Robert Plant ARTIST=Alison Krauss Only one artist is shown for this album. (In my tests, it appears to be the first ARTIST tag found - Robert Plant.) Even when browsing artists and viewing the albums by Alison Krauss, only 'Robert Plant' is displayed as the artist for the album. 2. The My Music option 'List albums by all artists for that album'/'List albums by band' appears to have lost its effect somewhere along the way. I think this may have been at some point when it was decided that nobody ever wanted to see a list of artists under a compilation album that could potentially number in the dozens. >From a recent discussion with Phil, it appears that this option originally was designed to allow the artist listed in a BAND tag to be shown for the album. I get the distinct impression that historically it was originally an option for the handling of ID3v2's TPE2 tag. And that the option 'Treat TPE2 MP3 tag as Band'/'Treat TPE2 MP3 tag as Album Artist' was probably added later when the server began handling FLAC files and their ALBUMARTIST tags. My take is that it was originally to allow the user to use TPE2 tags to override ARTIST/TPE1 tagging in an album, which was most likely the original behavior. Today, of course, ALBUMARTIST automatically has precedence over ARTIST tagging. It's not optional. Hopefully, Phil will chime in with how this option should be treated today. Seems to me that it should either be fixed, or, if it's going to have no effect, then the option should be eliminated from the settings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101895 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
