Sounds like the following is needed (my apolgies to Mr Sinatra if he already stated this, but I gave up on trying to sift through all those very long replies quite a while ago):
First, there's something we'd have to come to agreement on: There just isn't a whole lot of use for _displaying_ BAND as the byline for an album when you're not also sorting by that name. I can't see anyone wanting/needing this behavior with Flac/Ogg/Ape files when they have the ALBUMARTIST tag readily available. So... - We clarify the option to mean: Use id3v2 tags' TPE2 (Band) to be equivalent to AlbumArtist in Mp3 files. Move it out from under the 'Compilation' heading. I would suggest creating maybe an 'Mp3 Tags' heading, or possibly a 'Scanning Options' heading or page. So the option would no longer refer to using the BAND role for display purposes. It would designate how to treat a certain Mp3 tag. - When the option is set, map TPE2 directly to the ALBUMARTIST role. When not set, leave it as BAND. - Permit sorting of albums by BAND in the manner suggested (somewhere) previously. By using a hierarchy of ALBUMARTIST, BAND, VA, ARTIST(s) when determining the album's primary contributor. I believe this is the approach suggested by Philip in 'bug 6490' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6490). It permits you to maintain contributor roles of both BAND and ALBUMARTIST except when needed for dealing with TPE2 tags. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46093 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
