MrSinatra;284855 Wrote: > let me clarify that a bit for you... > > album artist and band are both tpe2 tags. so essentially the same. > > when SC7 says "list by band" thats the same as saying list by album > artist, and all it means is it DISPLAYS that tag as "by album artist" > it does not mean to suggest it SORTS by that tag. > > however, i agree with you, SC7 should absolutely have the option sort > by the tpe2 tag, and consider soundtracks and so on as various > artists. > > this is something i have been trying to figure out... when the wiki is > back, i want everyone to help me figure out the "logic" sc7 uses to do > sorting based on files, folders, tags, etc... > > and i think SC7 should be smart enough to get it right wihout > compilation tags, which imo, are an itunes thing and not really > necessary to create a working system.
OK good, I started another thread to the "List by Album Artist" (probably while you were replying here) maybe the discussion can take place there. But the Compilation question is a different issue. For one thing there are two types of complication: Greatest hits (collection of a single artist's work) type and Soundtrack/Everyone sings X (multiple artists/common theme) type. iTunes uses same flag for both. When IMO it only makes sense for the second type. So you can consider this a special case where if compilation = true then Album Artist = "Various Artists" (or whatever string one specifies). Then the Compilation issue goes away, doesn't it? But it still leave the sorting issue which is much more important, as there is currently on way of squaring iTunes sorting with SC sorting by Artist. I would guess that there number of true compilations is < 1%, whereas the number of albums with heterogeneous Artists tags, that SC currently falsely lists as compilations, approaches 30~40%. -- bullgod ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bullgod's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45280 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
