emalvick;674753 Wrote: > This is always a hazy area, which is why I doubt we'll see the one best > fix. Saying an that because there is an Album Artist, Compilation = 0 > (which is what is assumed by Squeezebox) is a bit of a disservice.
Like you say, the debate has gone on forever, but why is it a 'disservice' to say that if an album has an ALBUMARTIST that it's not a compilation? The only thing that being a compilation really does is tells the server to credit the album to the pseudo-albumartist 'Various Artists'. If you want to override that, and override the logic that determines compilation albums, then it's a means to doing so. Merely adding COMPILATION=0 to such an album leaves you with one very large problem: Who's album is it when there are multiple artists on the tracks? > Of course, we can manually set Compilation = 1. You can, but it should have little or no effect. If you want a compilation album to be credited to some other particular artist then what does _also_ saying that it's a compilation accomplish? Do you want it to be grouped with 'Various Artists' despite being credited to someone? I could see that, but I can't understand why anyone would want it. > Ideally, the logic would be a bit more inteligent. For instance, if a > track artist exists on all tracks on an album, even if they aren't the > only track artist, then this type of album should be treated as > Compilation = 0. There is no TRACKARTIST tag. Are you saying that the server should evaluate the artist list from every track on an album, and that if it sees a common artist on all tracks, then the album should be considered a non-compilation credited to that common artist? A) That's a fairly tall order that I expect would slow down scanning substantially. B) I doubt that there's any software out there that does this. C) What happens when an album has, say, one track by a guest artist on which the main artist doesn't appear? Then it gets marked as a compilation anyway. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92049 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
