mherger wrote: > > > 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.[/color] > > The underlying problem is the use of artists.contributor: some places > don't use the albums -> contributors relation to get a list of > contributors, but the albums.contributor only. I must assume this was > done for performance reasons. See > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15779#c3 > > But imho this indeed can't be correct, as the assignment of a > contributor to albums.contributor is rather random (just pick the first > > or last contributor found).
I believe that's almost certainly correct: it was done for performance reasons. This goes right back to my long-standing feeling that album artist(s) roles need to be assigned for _every_ album at scan time. Without them, the queries and the logic involved just to generate an album's "by" line are very inefficient. A page requiring the display of dozens of albums can require hundreds of queries instead of the single query that should be necessary. > Do you have a list of places where this incomplete list of contributors > > would be shown? I'm not aware of any place where it is -not- shown for albums. Have you found one? > BTW: the "use band as album artist" option is only working in mp3. It's > > being evaluated at scan time, therefore manipulating the data. And it > was introduced to behave the way iTunes does. That makes sense and would be reflected in the rewording of this option to 'Treat TPE2 MP3 tag as Band/Album Artist' that came much later. > > The "list albums by band" option otoh is being used when displaying > albums (in some places only, as mentioned above). It is one of the prefs > > only available if you decide to use the old, single, artists list. It's > > not being used in the new AA or All Artists list. Which probably is > wrong, as it's being respected when displaying albums on the older > players in other places, too. And in this context it seems redundant > with the bandInArtists pref... > > I'll check bugzilla. But I think this would be worth a bug report. Let's > > consolidate these params. It _is_ being used? That's not my understanding. Is it only used with Mp3/ID3v2 tagging? I'd have to defer to Phil as to what this option should or could be used for. In the other recent thread on the subject, he mentioned a situation where he thought it was necessary, but I never fully understood the reasoning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
