jezbo wrote: > I'm still confused by your opposition to the concept of "titled artist". > I think all the music apps have the same concept, albeit without > actually giving it a name. I think it's an accepted standard that the > Album Artist tag is given priority, but if this is not specified then > the Artist tag is used. Take one album by artist "Blue Cheer" as an > example, here are the tags: > It has the Artist tag filled in, but Album Artist is blank. LMS uses the > Artist tag to attribute to the album (as the "titled" artist in Muso's > terminology) because Album Artist is blank - these are screenshots by > Album and by Artist: > It doesn't file this album under <No Album Artist>, it files it under > "Blue Cheer" - this is the titled artist. I would say iTunes, Windows > Media Player, etc would all do the same thing, filing it under the > combination of Album Artist and Artist. Now I COULD add a hierarchy > option of "by Album Artist" to Muso (so you would see this album under > <No Album Artist> or some other configured value), but this I think > would then be doing something very DIFFERENT to LMS and other music apps > - I'm not sure it would add value, and I think it might confuse matters > further. > > Now it's entirely possible I have missed something or misunderstand you, > so please elucidate if this is the case. > > I think we should look at the issue you have in isolation - so for the > albums you find hard to find, tell me what the tags are set to, what the > fields are set to in Muso (should be the same as the tags but we can > look at cases where they might be different, eg. Compilation tag which > will be fixed next version), and what muso views you can't find them in, > and we'll work from there.
I no longer disagree with your "Titled Artist" way of seeing things. All I ask for is that is that you add "Album Artist" as a valid sorting criteria under Hierarchy. Anyone who finds that confusing for whatever reason, can simply choose to avoid using it. I'm not asking you to include some weird idea of mine, just allow one of the master tags to be selectable. Feel free to add it to end of the list. (I think this is a more fruitful approach than to argue back and forth what's right and what's wrong) Rgds Viking ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
