>Look don't get me wrong. I am NOT asking for this. Whitebear does not >need it. However MrSinatra is being so vehement about him needing it, >that I am simply proposing a properly architected data structure and >query backend that would give him what he wants. (Of course if you want >to just kludge the UI, then that is fine with me, since the Bear does >not use the UI anyhow...) > Just to be clear, I wasn't asking you to ask for it either! The enhancement request has been in the system for a few years now; it's never likely to happen anyway.
The DB already models compilation albums; the Web UI, various player UI's and CLI are just views of that data model. I was less concerned about providing CLI support; I just see it as an extra way of browsing content in the library - one which I have already achieved for myself using Custom Browse plugin. I don't see the proposal as a UI kludge. Moreover, the current UI is a kludge, with all compilation albums appearing under "Various Artists", even when the album artist is not "Various Artists". e.g. usually you'd expect to navigate into an artist, view an album, and see that the album artist (or at least one of the album artists if there's multiple) matches the artist you chose to view. This is not necessarily true for "Various Artists", where I can view Artists > Various Artists > Biosystems - The Biosphere Remixes, and the album artist will be reported as "Biosphere", not "Various Artists". I can browse Artists > Biosphere > The Biosphere Remixes to navigate to the album. I do have other compilation albums that do belong under an album artist called "Various Artists", and they would still be viewable under that artist - all albums would still be visible under the album artist that they belong to. i.e. displaying compilation albums in their own list is less of a kludge than pretending that they belong to an artist that isn't even referenced on the album! Phil _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
