Hi everybody and Pippin Long-time iPeng for iPhone/iPod fan here!
This is a question/request about handling of compilations. In short: using iPeng on my iPhone/iPod, compilations are not displayed in line with LMS Web Remote Control - which is how I think they should (?) - and would prefer them to - be displayed, if at all possible please. My compilation configuration is not the default. Instead, I use "List compilation albums under each artist" in LMS Server Settings, all my compilations are tagged with COMPILATION=1, and I give useful Album Artist names such as Warp Records Compilations, Soundtracks, Free Magazine CDs. This means under Artist view, I can select these useful names rather than wade through hundreds of Various Artists albums. It also means individual artists are always listed separately too, which I personally find sometimes useful. So, what's the problem? Well, in LMS Web Remote Control, if I select Artists > Soundtracks > Trainspotting, then - as you would expect - each track is displayed with the individual Artist tag, e.g. Brian Eno, Iggy Pop. This is in the view before pressing play - just browsing. In iPeng however, in the same view, all the tracks are instead displayed with the Album Artist, e.g. Soundtracks. (Although this in fact isn't the case if I set the server to group compilations - subverting them all under Various Artists. In this case, iPeng does indeed display the individual Artist tags in the same view) (I also noticed that conversely - this time in both iPeng and LMS Web Remote Control - if I go to e.g. Artist > Iggy Pop, then under the list of albums, Trainspotting will be listed with the Artist name Iggy Pop, rather than the Album Artist name Soundtracks. I would personally expect the latter, ie Soundtracks, and would find it more useful in order to distinguish original albums vs compilations. Maybe I haven't thought it all through, but shouldn't it be kept simple - a list of albums prioritises displaying Album Artist - and a list of tracks displays Artist?) Cheers ff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ flimflam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
