snarlydwarf;284860 Wrote: > Right, and Thirty Years of Maximum R&B by The Who should be listed under > The Who even though some tracks are credited to the High Numbers. > > That is working perfect for me: > > Code: -------------------- > > > Album: Thirty Years of Maximum R & B > Album Artist: The Who > Artist: The Who, The High Numbers > Year: 1994 > Duration: 129:58 > -------------------- > > > > > > Agreed, and that seems working for me (see above). On the pure > 'albums' list, it only shows The Who (again, what I would expect and > I like that, and think that agrees with your expectations). >
You missed the point. What happens when you use the "Artist" List? Are all you Who albums listed together? or does this one come under "Various Artists", I suspect the latter. snarlydwarf;284860 Wrote: > > Ah, so you have a problem with it importing all this from iTunes? That > is really where the problem lies then, the interconnect between the two? > The catch here is that no one can do much about that other than Apple: > they have a propietary and changing interface and the documentation is > mostly reverse-engineered. > > Thats like saying you want OpenOffice to be able to import -exactly- > from random versions of Word. That would be nice, too, but would > depend on Microsoft playing nice... in both cases, it is against the > business interests of Apple and Microsoft to play nice with others, or > at least so they believe. (Personally, I think interoperation can > increase sales, and open API's are good even for the major players, but > I don't have the money of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs...) > > It really sounds like the confusion is in the interpretation and > conversion of metadata from iTunes. > > (And, no, I don't think I am shooting you down in flames: I am trying > to understand the origin of your problem in order to provide a > solution. If you are importing from iTunes, then what iTunes provides > and the way it presents it is very relevant... and only Apple can > change that.) No. This is not the problem, or a valid analogy. If you want me to expand or why this is we can continue this discussion elsewhere. snarlydwarf;284860 Wrote: > > It lists fine by Album Artist for me... > No, what happens is when you list Album, the correct Album Artist is displayed along side them. What is required, is when listing Artists, all their Albums are listed together. So the above Album is listed next to "Live and Leeds", also by "The Who". -- 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
