JJZolx;300522 Wrote: > That, IMO, is a bug. I think those artists should be suppressed whether > or not the album is a compilation. I think the problem is more > historical than anything else - at one time any album that had more > than one artist was considered a compilation no matter what. It was > never foreseen that you could have non-compilations by using explicit > COMPILATION tags or ALBUMARTIST. > > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5108 > > The example I always use is the Sinatra album called 'Duets', where > Sinatra records each track with a different artist. This is obviously > a non-compilation. It's a Sinatra album and you want it grouped with > Sinatra, so the ALBUMARTIST is Sinatra. Currently for SqueezeCenter > you must mark it explicitly with COMPILATION=0. Unfortunately, as you > point out, all those guest artists will be listed in the artist list. > > This is a bug that I really wish would get fixed. I think it would > simplify a lot of things greatly.
You know, that is a tough call. In your Sinatra example, without COMPILATION tag set, all those other guys might be not significant enough to deserve a place in artist list. But problem is if some of them are, then even if there is a guest artist there who also has a separate album in your library, you won't be able to flow between those two albums based on that artist. Solution I found is to tag only those tracks with COMPILATION=0. Then, what if, in classical music case there's an album where star soprano sings stuff from 5 famous composers. Soprano becomes ALBUMARTIST, composers become ARTIST, but I do want them to show in artist list and I want to be able to browse by that artist for other albums where they might participate. Setting COMPILATION=0 (for all tracks) solves is. So, in this case,it is desired behavior. I almost see a need for ALBUMCOMPILATION tag :) :) :) K -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAj2aPdQnk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvMNuuFSvN0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDRhRv4q_SI http://youtube.com/watch?v=nlrpe8Ig5m8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=dC9tGlwPln8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47297 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
