slimkid;291396 Wrote: 
> Look, that has been beaten up in this thread already. It is now in SD
> hands to do something about it. Will they - I don't know.
> 
With all the speed of addressing "List by Band" confusion? I won't hold
my breathe.
slimkid;291396 Wrote: 
> 
> The question is, whether you are going to do something about it for
> yourself, or you intend to sit there and cry with 99.9% of the world.
> If former, I'm offering you  a solution. If not, well ...
> 
Well I have a hack that's a solution that works for me.
You offered me a solution to a different problem, and you're surprised
I declined it. I wonder if you ever really understood the problem? 

slimkid;291396 Wrote: 
> 
> And as far as Mrs bullgod is concerned (respect), something tells me
> that she might be even happier if you took tagging fine tuning
> completely out of her hands and did it for her.
> K
No, surprisingly, she expects to rip a cd using iTunes, and it appear
in on Slimserver in what she believes to be Album Artist, and as
justification she might point to Slimserver's ticked "I use iTunes"
option.

Philip Meyer;291604 Wrote: 
> >I'm not losing my mind over this but I'm telling you
> >it's not a problem with my tags but with the way the Squeeze server
> >deals with it.
> Oh no, not another one...
>  

Yes another one, and I suspect one of many who find your "but you're
not doing it properly" argument unsatisfying. 

Philip Meyer;291604 Wrote: 
> 
> Yes, it makes perfect sense to organise music to have album artist
> tags, and SqueezeCenter is working exactly as it was intended
> 

Yes, but when "as intended" is does not coincide with the users'
expectations it's not a defence. Especially when the only documentation
I find for what "as intended" means
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?VariousArtistsLogic is sketchy
and is incomplete. Hiding behind such a defence usually relies on a
bigger fig leaf.

This has been dragging on for so long now, and shows little sign of
resolution. Bug 4624, for example was opened in end 2006, this is why I
don't share slimkid's optimism. 

Perhaps what is required is a little bit more pragmatic understanding
of how user actually uses the product and I little less blind standard
conformance.

If this does show any sign of being addressed, I'll be happy to do beta
testing, you you where I am.

Until then I'll live with my own hack. If anyone is interested, you can
contact me, it's simple enough to replicate and appears to give a much
better browsing experience with a straight forward iTunes/SC setup,
listing multiple artist albums under Itunes's "Album Artist", and
doesn't appear to have broken anything else, but YMMV.

Thank you to those that have shown understanding.


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