Parking the discussion about how to tag albums, what really matters here is how browsing the content of the library could be improved.
When displaying albums for a chosen artist, it is easy to determine for each album whether it is a compilation or not, so it must be fairly easy to sort by compilation ascending (non-comps first, comps last). Would need to treat Compilation=null and 0 as the same value for sorting, but that's easy. A minor tweak to an Order By statement could achieve that. SBS can order by artist, album, which means compilations should be listed together by "Various Artists" (or whatever). So this isn't a million miles away. Problem is if a user want to order by album title, year or genre. They would still like non-comps first, and then artist, album title, year or genre. So just add a order by ISNULL(compilation,0) clause before the chosen order mode. Better still would be to group the albums that have compilation=1 to list them under a sub-item. This would affect multiple user interfaces, so is probably more work (at least in testing), and likely to break third-party apps (iPeng, etc) to some degree. It is also easy to determine albums that the artist has been involved on where the artist is not the main artist (or album artist). Appearances on compilations and as a track artist on non-compilations could be sorted or grouped in separate sections or combined in one section. Not too bothered either way. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
