> i don't think it has ANYTHING to do with mapping. TPE2 is SC7 internal > tag BAND period. and no current option affects that. it currents only > affects how things are denoted when displayed.
correct. The pref, 'useBandAsAlbumArtist' is only used in one place in the code. When the $album->artists are requested, setting this option means you get the BAND in the album listing "ThisAlbum by BAND (20xx)". It has no other internal use aside from being in the list of contributors. If you want BAND to have a different purpose, such as the ALBUMARTIST you could add it to the %tagMapping in Formats::MP3. I don't personally use BAND tags, but based on that pref's use in the code, it works as advertised. However, it wouldn't take too much to convince me that the wording in that pref is somewhat confusing. Primarily, the mention of "album artist" would tend to increase the odds of confusion. Thing is, Album Artist is not the same thing as Band. Album Artist, as mentioned before is a single performer name for an entire album, things like "Original Cast of the Motion Picture", "People I've seen at the Commodore" or "Various Artists". Band is a performer of a track, like referring to Rush instead of Peart, Lee & Lifeson. SC does not use BAND in any context of VA/compilation handling, except to perhaps allow you to decide what is shown in the listing. See Slim::Schema::Album::artists(). Only 4 places call this function: AlbumQuery (for CLI), TitleFormatter (for formatted song string), BrowsedbItemName (for playerUI browsing), and displayAsHTML (for web ui album lists). -kdf _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
