Philip Meyer;379730 Wrote: > >One thing that I've done in my library is to define an ALBUMARTIST for > >_every_ non-compilation album, even when it's exactly the same as the > >artist on every track. With the way SqueezeCenter works to determine > >the artist to display for each album, this makes the interface a > little > >quicker. Without an album artist, SC looks at the artists from every > >track in an album. On a web page with, say, 50 albums, SqueezeCenter > >does 100s of db queries. With an album artist defined, it just needs > >to do one query per album. Still not ideal - it should be doable > with > >a single query that pulls all the albums on a page. > > > > Interesting. It shouldn't be any different. At scan time, a single > contributor is stored in the album record.
I believe this contributor column is used for nothing other than sorting albums by artist (and consequently, the alpha pagebar). When it comes to _displaying_ the artist for an album, every track is examined, unless there's an ALBUMARTIST. > It's also stored in the album to contributors link table, where there > are more than one album artist contributor, but that can still be > returned in a single query. It's not used for displaying the artist name. > Having an albumartist for regular albums changes the behaviour subtlely > I think, as the songs will have track artist roles, not artist roles. > You also get the artist listed twice (on an album context "Artist:" and > "Album Artist:", and in track context "Artist:" and "Track Artist:"). You're right, there are subtle consequences. For instance, I have an album by B.B. King and Eric Clapton, that I've tagged: ALBUMARTIST=B.B. Kind & Eric Clapton ARTIST=B.B. King ARTIST=Eric Clapton So I end up with another artist in my artist list, as though it where a common ensemble name, like 'Simon & Garfunkel', which it isn't. Probably the biggest drawback that I've found is that there's no ALBUMARTISTSORT tag recognized, so I have a little less control over how albums are sorted by artist name. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57594 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
