>I'm not sure exactly when SBS scanner set's it to 1 and 6, if the >artists you think is track artists is set to 1 it explains what you are >seeing. > Track Artist roles are only given to songs that are on albums/songs that also have an Album Artist. An album that doesn't have an album artist (i.e. assigned "Various Artists" automatically, because there is at least one different artist on songs), will have songs with an Artist role, not Track Artist. It's always seemed a bit peculiar.
>Could it be that all those track artists are on compilation albums, so >when you activate Various Artists setting they are removed because it >then only shows artists on normal albums in the main list ? > There are two cases where artists are included/excluded from the list: 1) If the artist only ever appears as a track artist (meaning they only appear as a guest on albums that have an album artist tag). 2) If the artist doesn't have any albums owned by them. A prime example is where I have ripped some songs from CD singles, and removed the "album" tag (because I don't want to clutter my album list with lots of "CD Single" entries containing a small number of tracks). As a result, they are associated with album="No Album" and have an Artist role, not Track Artist. eg. I have a single song "Starman" by Artist="10,000 Maniacs" on "No Album". I include Artist and Album Artist roles in the list. If I exclude the "Various Artists section", I see the "10,000 Maniacs" artist in the "Unplayed Artists" list. If I include the "Various Artists section", I don't see the artist "10,000 Maniacs" in the "Unplayed Artists" list. I thought I'd actually be able to find these within Various Artists > No Album, but strangely, I only see a handfull of songs there (a lot less than I have exploded out into the artists list if I exclude Various Artists. It doesn't seem to work correctly, but I'm not sure what's wrong with it. I guess the problem is more associated with (2) above - that the SBS Artist menu finds artists that are associated with albums, but excludes "No Album" albums? Perhaps I should capture the SQL being generated to get the list in both cases. _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
