Philip Meyer;638578 Wrote:
>
> The only sticking point appears to be (correct me if I am wrong) when
> type (3) have used Album Artist = Various Artists. As they do not have
> a compilation tag, the albums are not displayed in the Artists > Various
> Artists list because the fudged-in mechanism of browsing compilations is
> overriding that normal artist with a special artist record. As
> explained, a workaround is easy, but really it would be good to remove
> the special brower handling of "Various Artists" that represents all
> compilation albums (i.e. 0 records for this user type) entry at the top
> of artists lists, and create a dedicated Browse Compilations mode.
>
> Another potential fix for this issue is perhaps in the display logic -
> don't display a special "Various Artists" entry at the top fo Artists
> list, if there are 0 albums. (I initially thought this was the case,
> but as type 3 users seem to indicate a problem, I guess the entry is
> permanently displayed?)
>
It feels "Various Artists" should be handled exactly the same was as
any other album artist. "Various Artists" is just an album artist,
which either can could come from an ALBUMARTIST tag or automatically
generated by SBS logic for albums with multiple aritsts where no
ALBUMARTIST tag exists. It shouldn't matter if it come from a tag or
has been automatically generated when later browsing artists.
That way, the option in the SBS setting would really be a choice
between:
- Show all artists in artist lists
or
- Show only album artists in the artist lists
No special handling required for "Various Artists" when browsing, the
special logic is only needed during scanning. The "Various Artists"
entry would as you suggest be sorted together with all other artists.
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