While investigating SC's handling of compilations I found the following quirky behavior. I have an album where every track has ARTIST="Various Artists" and COMPILATION is not set. I set "group compilations" on the settings page. When I browse to Genre> or Artists> I see "Various Artists" at the top which contains all compilation albums. As expected, this album does *not* appear here. (Well, maybe you wish it would, but from what I understand of how SC handles compilations, I don't expect it to show up.) There is also an artists entry under "V" called "Various Artists", where I would have expected to find this album, but it doesn't appear. I noticed that the html query for the link to this "Various Artists" contains "album.compilation=1", which would seem to indicate that it's only asking for albums with artist="Various Artists" *and* compilation set. (The special "Various Artists" item at the top of the artist list also contains "album.compilation=1".) This behavior doesn't seem correct to me: the VA item at the top is the special one for compilations, the VA under v in the artist list should probably be for albums where the artist is VA, but aren't compilations, or else maybe should be omitted.
The quirky part is that if you set an alternate name for compilations instead of the default "Various Artists" (I used "Compilations") then you find an item at the top of the artist list called "Compilations" which correctly holds all compilations and you find an item called "Various Artists" under v in the artist list that does not contain "album.compilation=1", and so correctly displays albums with artist=Various Artists but aren't compilations. (I didn't check what would happen if there were an album tagged with ARTIST=compilation.) Essentially, the "Various Artists" item under v in the artist list is acting as a subset of the albums appearing in the "Various Artists" item at the top of the artist list. Does this seem like the right behavior? -s -- wnshall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55941 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
