Philip Meyer;366905 Wrote: > >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? > > Yes, it sounds correct to me. > > The "Various Artists" special SC artist appears under "V" and at the > top of the list. Both are identical entries, and are configured to > display compilation albums. >
But they are not identical. The "Various Artists" that appears under "V" only contains compilations that *also* have artist="Various Artists". In my test case several compilation albums (eg with different track artists) did appear under the first VA item but did not appear under the VA item at "V". It would be perfectly reasonable if both VA items behaved the same, as you described, or SC could just omit the listing of VA at "V". Or, maybe it would be useful to list at "V" any albums that had ARTIST="Various Artists". These are not identified by SC as compilations (unless they have the COMPILATION=1) and actually will be invisible in the artist list with the current behavior (which excludes from the VA item at "V" any non-compilations.) It's true, as you said, that tagging an album with ARTIST="Various Artists" doesn't make it a compilation. On the other hand, people do tag this way sometimes and it might be nice if they showed up *somewhere* in the artist list (of course, they'll appear in album lists.) > > Better still, tag the songs correctly to say who performs on each song, > and it would automatically be listed correctly. As always, this is the best advice. -- 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
