With LMS configured to use two separate lists for Album Artists and All Artists, I can't achieve the equivalent of the "show band in artists" option of the old Browse Artists mode.
i.e. "Album Artists" is a pre-configured list that shows regular artist albums, and albums that have an album artist, but crucially not Artists on compilations. I used to have the Browse Artists list include Bands/Orchestras. So I thought I'd create a new browse mode called "Artists and Bands", including contributor roles "ALBUMARTIST, BAND". However, that doesn't have the desired effect, as ALBUMARTIST only pulls back artists that have been tagged as album artists, and not artists for regular albums. So I tried to use "ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, BAND". However, that doesn't have the desired effect, because ARTIST also pulls back all artists on compilation albums. There must be special logic that is applied within the built-in "Album Artists" browse mode and the original Artists browse mode, that is not possible to replicate with a custom browse mode. Possible solution proposed: At scan time, ensure "Album Artist" contributor roles are assigned to albums not defined with an album artist. We can then more simplistically use "ALBUMARTIST" role to get the same effect as the built-in "Album Artists" browse mode, and add other contributor roles as required. Note: could then also eliminate ARTIST - just have ALBUMARTIST and TRACKARTIST roles. Phil _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
