On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Heino Walther wrote:

> The extra AlbumArtist attribute was so that you could identify the
> compilations, even though they may have the same name.

My point was that this already exists. Every track has an artist and an
album, and every album has an artist, therefore every track is linked to
two artists.

So in the ui_branch, when you click on an artist in the artist list, the
page shows all tracks on albums that have that artist as the album
artist, followed by all tracks that have that artist as the track artist
but not the album artist.

So for me if I click on "Compilations" in the artist list, I get to see
all my compilation disks. If I click on an artist such as "Queen" I get to
all the Queen albums, followed by all Queen tracks that are on compilation
disks.

The problem (as you point out) is that there is no simple way to detect
these disks. What I did was in the 'admin' pages if you click on an album,
it shows something like "18 albums with the same title. Merge them?". It's
not brilliant maybe you can suggest something better.
It also screws up on disk names containing ' because my SQL code doesn't
escape it.



> I actually have a few dupe album names, which hasn't got the same tracks on
> them... I know it is rare, but still, it happens.
> And another thing you could "control" is if an ablum had a guest artist on
> it, say if on U2's next album, they for some reason had a track done by
> Depeche Mode...  This is typically for some albums...
> 

The problem is with track with multiple artists? I have an album "The best
air guitar album in the world ever".

Ideally the track "Walk This Way", should show up under "Aerosmith", "Run
DMC" and "Compilations"

Rob

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