slimkid;208518 Wrote: > Good. What about the situation where non compilation album has > ALBUMARTIST populated? I'd like to have a choice to display it 'by' > albumartist or 'by' original artist. If forcing COMPILATION tag one way > or another would influence this, that'd be OK. In my experience, there > are very few situations where I'd like album listed under 'Various > Artists'.
That's what the pref "Group compilation albums together" is for. I've stated elsewhere that the wording of this option never made any sense to me, because it's more about about if/where _artists_ are listed than about where the albums are listed. What this preference really does is work to suppress (or not) track artists without complete albums. (Let's call them "track-only" artists). This would include not only artists that appear on compilations, but those on non-compilations, such as the guest artists described in a previous post. In your case, you would choose not to suppress track-only artists. Then every artist appearing anywhere, on both compilations and non-compilations would appear in your artist list. A stickier scenario would be the compilation album with an ALBUMARTIST. If this is even possible - it would have to be decided whether the COMPILATION tag can override an album seen as a non-compilation by virtue of the ALBUMARTIST tag. Where it would appear in a album list (i.e. where it would be sorted) when the list is ordered by artist seems somewhat conflicting. Maybe you just don't allow this situation? -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36062 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
