Philip Meyer;289986 Wrote: > 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).
AGREED. Philip Meyer;289986 Wrote: > 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. this might have something to do with your tags, as i gather you use user defined ones? i can tell you there IS a difference. if i say "List albums by band" then it will use the TPE2 tag in my files to say who the album is by. if i do the other option, it will say the album is by various artists (if its an album with some differing TPE1 tracks). if its not differing artists, then it just uses the TPE1 tag to say who the album is by. Philip Meyer;289986 Wrote: > 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. agreed. and why shouldn't it? how many people want to display an album as by someone but then at the same time not sort them into that same someone's place? Philip Meyer;289986 Wrote: > 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. it is pure folly at this point to guess at what the intention of the setting was. what is clear, is what the setting does currently. i just described it above. what is not clear, is how do people then sort to be in agreement with how it is displayed? as far as i can tell, they can't without user defined tags. if i had to GUESS, i would think that logically, the setting was in fact intended to do both. but clearly it only does half, (the display part, and thats how it has been for years, since i started using SS). Philip Meyer;289986 Wrote: > 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 of course the problem is there IS NO OPTION to "treat band as album artist." but that would be one solution as you suggest, i would say if "checked" it would mean TPE2 tags populate both BAND and ALBUMARTIST SC7 tags. the other solution, is to offer an option of sort by BAND which already gets TPE2 tag data. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / Jive - w/SC 7.0.1beta - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46093 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
