hear hear!! i have also been eagerly awaiting this - but... i would like the option to list the compilation album under the 'browse by artists' section. as i stated on the bug report list, if i had the album 'rushmore soundtrack' i would like it to appear next to 'rush' in the artists. (if i actually owned a rush album that is..but the point is the same)
on import, slimserver would detect this from the tags. it would see that while the album name was the same for each track, the artists would be different. it would then sort it according to the stated preference (either a various artists section, or by album title under 'browse by artists') because i do all my music browsing by artists, i'm afraid that a various artists category would never get browsed (by me anyway). however it is done i would like to see the end of artists containing 1 album and 1 song. this would probably cut my artist list by about a quarter and make browsing via the squeezebox much faster and more pleasant. according to the bug report (which i added to as of version 5.4.0) this feature was awaiting the database backend. well...it's here! so, any updates on this? ----- Original Message ----- From: "radish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:12 PM Subject: [slim] "Various Artists" - Bug 288 > > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288 > > As we've just passed the 1 year anniversary of this bug being raised I > was wondering if we could get an update on any progress? Simply put, > the idea is to allow slimserver to (optionally) put compilation albums > in their own category and not include the artists on such albums in the > regular "browse by artist" menus. > > To give you an idea of the scale of the issue, I have around 9000 > soungs (~700 albums), but over 4000 artists. "Browsing" that on the SB > display is not particularly friendly :) If it were cut down to just > artists who had at least one entire album, it would probably be down to > under 200 and MUCH more useful. > > Cheers! > > > -- > radish > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
