>Phil, you are the one who started this, for a second time now, in this >thread. > No, you did, and a second time after I stopped, and you brought it back up.
I merely offered a recap of what to do to resolve any issues people may have with an album not being displayed. i.e. fix tags so that it works with Squeezebox Server, or change Squeezebox Server's "Various Artists" setting, rather than sit around whinging that it's a bug that affects millions of users and should be fixed without changing tags. >1. your assessment isn't valid, b/c the data isn't "dodgy" Yes it is, in respect of how this app works. >2. no one at slim intended scanned albums to be hidden No, probably not, but then again no-one expected various artist albums to not be compilations. >3. a string, regardless of what it is or what you think of it, >shouldn't ultimately cause albums to be hidden, no matter what, (unless >thats the intention of the tag, which is not the case here). > Such a situation is indeterminate - it doesn't fit in with how the app is trying to display albums by the chosen artist. Various Artists - only shows compilation albums. Any other artist - display albums by that artist that are not compilations. An album that is by an artist/album-artist called Various Artists that is not a compilation doesn't fit into either category, so it isn't displayed. It's not hidden, just not displayed. i.e. Such albums are visible in other ways (Browse albums, search, browse music folder). Potentially such albums could be listed in Various Artists, but they aren't compilations, so it would be wrong. Like you say, the artist name is just a string, so without a compilation indicator, it shouldn't be displayed as a compilation. Potentially such albums could be listed as another "Various Artists" entry, but that's confusing, having two diffferent artists listed with the same name. Potentially such albums could be listed in another special category, (like albums without an album name appear in "No Album"), eg. "Various Artists - Non Compilation". All of these things are enhancement requests - changing the way the software works to account for metadata that is not how the app was intended to cope with. A better approach which I've mentioned somewhere else before, which is also how other apps that support compilation albums does it, would be to have a Browse Compilations browse menu, and Browse Artists would not have the special "Various Artists" entry at the top. Then an artist that is called "Various Artists" and is not a compilation could appear without confusing compilations/non-compilations issues. I think that's a cleaner UI. That's an enhancement request though. >3. a string, regardless of what it is or what you think of it, >shouldn't ultimately cause albums to be hidden, no matter what, (unless >thats the intention of the tag, which is not the case here). > Maybe I should also mention the diacritics in tags issue - where an artist name string is not interpretted and displayed in the form it was entered. The App is essentially hiding the artist string, as it is merged within another artist record. They should be displayed as distinct items, and leave it up to the user to correct tags, not make some arbitrary judgement how the artists should be aggregated. >i see no reason for this issue to be contentious or argued over True. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
