MrSinatra;309158 Wrote: 
> 
> so my question to you is what happens on the slim developer side, or
> what is needed, to get this option incorporated into the nightly
> betas?
> 
Logitech regularly looks through bug/enhancement reports with provided
patches and checks if the patch is good enough. If there is an
enhancement, they also decide if they like to add it to SqueezeCenter
and thus also manage the potential support issues later related to it.
If they decide it's worth adding the decide which release they like to
add it to. Usually critical bug corrections is added to the next fix
release (7.0.x in this case), small enhancement is added to the next
major release (7.1 in this case) and larger enhancements is added to a
future release after the next major release (7.2 or later in this
case). I suspect this is something that might be added to 7.1 or 7.2 if
they decide they like to manage the support issues for this new option.

The only good way that end users can affect this decision is to vote on
the registered enhancement request at http://bugs.slimdevices.com

MrSinatra;309158 Wrote: 
> 
> here's my next question...
> 
> does SC 'know' that an album is a compilation based on the internal
> ALBUMARTIST field?
> 
> meaning, lets say VA detection was turned off, and you had no comp tags
> at all of any kind, if the ALBUMARTIST field was populated by the string
> "Various Artists" then sure, it would sort the album there, BUT would it
> know the album was a compilation album, (based on the string data)?
> 
> and if it did not know this, what would be the drawback?  (meaning,
> what is the drawback of SC not knowing a given album is a comp if it is
> in fact a comp?)
> 
I have no idea, but I'm sure someone has already mention how it works
in a post earlier in this thread (or in one of the related threads). If
I'm reading the code correctly, I think the only albums that will be
considered compilation with the new option disabled is those with a
COMPILATION tag. I'm not sure what will happen with albums with an
album artist named "Various Artists".

If you like to help, you can verify how it works with and without the
patch. 

If you are using Windows, you will need to install ActiveState perl and
run slimserver.pl manually to be able to use the patch after you have
applied it. If you feel this is to complicated, it would also help if
you could just verify how this work today (without the patch).


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