jezbo wrote: > So if you selected sort by Album Artist, what will it do with albums > that don't specify Album Artist? Suppress them? You may have this filled > in for all your albums (in which case sort by Artist does what you want > doesn't it?) but I rarely do - only when the Artist fields at track > level differ. It would be useful if you could clarify what the Gallery > sort by Artist and Hierarchy by Artist does wrongly for you, given your > Album Artist tags, I'm having trouble understanding exactly what the > issue is. > > I sometimes sort by Size, to find good candidates for deletion when my > disk is nearing capacity. And in general it gives the albums of higher > audio quality near the top (24-bit for example), though the length is a > factor too of course. Importing from LMS fills in the size for each > track/album, but in the next version a file scan will do to. > > NB. Next version may be tomorrow - I've reworked quite a bit but have > noticed a few anomalies I'd like to iron out before release.
He, he - you're making things "academic" - It's like saying; "If you enter McDonald's just to descover that you've forgotten your wallet at home, what do you do?" Well, you turn back home to correct your mistake. If the ALBUMARTIST tag is left blank, it's because I want it blank or made a mistake. A properly designed application should not deliberatley attempt to override or correct user mistakes "secretly", but may well suggest a corrective action and let the user decide. How Muso should treat a blank field in a sorting context would be to put it either at the end or at the beginning - if the ALBUMARTIST were the sorting key. Just like an empty cell in a sorted spreadsheet column. My issue is that I fail to locate albums that I know is in there somewhere. I'd like to turn this around; Why should you want to suppress one of the primary tag fields defined? I'm not saying that your selection of tag fields made available for sorting in Muso, and your default interpretation of how you think things should be sorted, are wrong. I'm just asking; Can you allow us full freedom to choose wether to use your method of sorting, or the one we've grown custom to use after years and years with most other music DB apps around. I do not rule out the possibility that I may grow to enjoy your new perspective of sorting, but I'd like to be able to choose that myself. And since I'm not essentially asking you add anything new and fancy invented by me, but simple requesting that you refrain from suppressing what's been around for years, namely the ALBUMARTIST field. The size issue is of little interest to me, so I will not argue that :-) Rgds Viking P.S. if you tell me "No" - ALBUMARTIST stays out -I will accept my defeat.... You rule. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oyvindo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19302 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91575 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
