Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Wrote: > On Monday 19 September 2005 14:21, JulianL wrote: > > > So, finally what I have come to is that for me what I really want in > > the tags is not the ability to use Artistsort to override the Artist > > tag sort order but rather the ability to have a tag like > > ArtistDisplayName to override the Artist display name when a track > is > > playing (but _not_ when browsing). > > wouldn't it be much simpler to just add in an option that if a listing > is > using an XxxSort field then rather than showing Xxx, it would actually > show > the value of XxxSort? That way the listing would make sense to you and > you > wouldn't need to rekey all you data? > > Alex > >
Hmmm. Correct! That would be more elegant. Good idea. That would also get round a nasty issue I have with the Telcanto client. It sees the artist list as just the "Artist" values (although curiously they are delivered to the Telcanto client in the correct sort order, i.e. with Artistsort used as the sort string when set). The trouble is that when I tap a tab at the top of the screen, e.g. the "cde" tab to take me to the start of the artists beginning with "c", Telcanto searches down the list but is searching the list of Artist tags with no access to the Artistsort tags so it sees "David Bowie" for instance, thinks it has hit the "d"s, and positions the display there. With your suggestion then SlimServer will automatically deliver the Artistsort text where appropriate to Telcanto and the tabs would work properly without needing to add extra logic into Telcanto and extra client-server protocols to allow Telcanto to get access to the Artistsort tag values (which apparently is where Telcanto and Slim Devices are currently at in their discussions). Brilliant! I guess I need to go and file an RFE. - Julian -- JulianL _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
