But if you constrain by both album and artist, you'll have 10-15 of each compilation cd, and some soundtracks. In this case, you'd need to have a tag specified for "cdartist" (Various Artists) or to somehow note that it is a compilation cd or multiple artist album.
Or, you could rename the album to be more than just the common name, like Footsteps to be Artist - Footsteps. But this would make displaying look rather poor when it says "Miles Davis - Footsteps by Miles Davis". There's not a very easy solution from a database perspective without a field that is album unique. If it doesn't come from the id3 tag it needs to come from the file/folder location. Going by *folder* giving each "folder" an ID# in the database, and everything in that folder is an album might work, but it would need to make sure you were at the lowest level of folders so someone with "Music/A/Aerosmith/Toys in the Attic" hierarchy is covered as well as people who have just "Music/A/Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic" or (heaven forbid) "Music/Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic". No idea what the workload cost would be using one method of scanning vs the other though. -- cdfreak _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
