AndrewFG;651916 Wrote: > The problem is that SBS only has 4 kinds of entity container (albums, > artists, genres, years); and compilations do not exist as an own > entity/container (probably rightly because there would only be one > such);
but thats the point of the bug/req! to create a fifth spot, home>comps. and this fifth spot would contain ONLY those things that SBS positively classified as a comp, either via explicit tags or scanner logic. the smart thing about the request, is that those things SBS would think are comps would STILL show up in the 'Home>4 other entities' under whatever SBS used to file them, be it an artist tag, an AA tag, or the term used to denote comps if detected as a comp (artist mismatches). yet the display/query/filter of these items in these other areas would not care at all if something was or wasn't a comp, and that would improve performance and simplify the code. Phil can explain it better, but thats the meat of it. AndrewFG;651916 Wrote: > the SBS "solution" is to mongrelize compililations as a kind of zombie > artist -- which is undoubtedly an abomination. indeed. i can understand someone wanting to find all their comps in one place, like "Home>Comps" but i will never understand someone wanting all their detected comps to then be assigned a single catchall term of "Various Artists" which is how SBS currently works! if you have more than a handful of comps, this method SUCKS! AndrewFG;651916 Wrote: > But the only problem is that if you would de-mongrelize VA/compilations > from being a zombie artist then you would have to re-mongrelize it as > something else... -- If it is no longer a zombie artist, then it must > become a zombie album, or a zombie genre, which frankly would be > equally ghastly... i'm not sure i follow you here... SBS can understand that somthing is a comp by giving it a comp=1 tag, and it will over-ride an AA tag, but it will still USE the AA tag to sort whatever in a given SBS artist list, or albums list sorted by artist. so a home>comps location would be sorted via differing AA tags, yet still be known to SBS as comps. meanwhile, the comps would sort in the other 4 places by their AA tags, without regard to whether they are a comp or not. does that address what you meant? (to me, comp status really shouldn't be as big a deal to SBS as it is, its way too over-wrought in this area. it shouldn't check comp status for display except for home>comps, and it shouldn't make three DB entries for two tags, [artist and album artist], and it shouldn't force autodetection either) -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & droid (my home) / duet & ipeng (parents' home) - sbs 7.5.5b - win7 ie9 & xp pro sp3 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 49k+ mp3/flac ::VOTE FOR 'BUG 15604' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15604)!!!:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87559 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
