Philip Meyer;379876 Wrote: > I've never really understood why there was that contributor column on > albums table, because there could be more than one contributor > (albumartist can have multiple values). > > So if an album has songs by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, I could define > "ALBUMARTIST=Robert Fripp;Brian Eno" - there would be two artists that > have contributor role album artist on that album. What gets displayed > then?
The contributor column is used only for *sorting* albums by artist name. It's not used for display. I don't recall the history exactly - I think it may have been added during some struggles with implementing the alphapagebar. Since you can only sort by a single artist name, it doesn't matter how many album artists there are - the album would likely be sorted at "bri..." (assuming no ARTISTSORT tags alter how contributors Brian Eno or Robert Fripp are sorted). For display, SC goes back to the 'use ALBUMARTIST' else 'find every artist on every track in the album' behavior. I've never added multiple ALBUMARTIST tags myself, but I assume all of the names would be displayed. -- 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
