It is not very clear what the intended behavior of "List albums by all artists for that album/List albums by band" is/was. But it does currently seem to be broken (or was, when I tried it a month back).
I changed the option between "List albums by band" and "List albums by all artists for that album", but I noticed no difference, even after a complete rescan. I think the word "List" confuses people into thinking it has something to do with how the browse by album page is sorted (as in "display a list of band tags only, sorted by band"). This was captured on bug 6490. I think the intention of this setting is "Treat BAND as album artist?", and thus should be a checkbox labelled as such to be clearer. If this was the intention of the setting, with the current database schema it would require a rescan after a change in order to change the contributor associated with the album. There was a long term design goal to do away with the need to do full rescans. Alternatively, if a full rescan is required after changing a setting (a user is likely to not change it often!), it would warn the user when applying the change. I would make the default for "Treat band as album artist" as unchecked, as this then follows the ID3 standard, but users have the option to make it work out-of-standard and similar to other (inferior!) software packages (i.e. iTunes). Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
