>> A better and potentially low-risk is to change browse menu sql to not >> filter out compilation artist from list of artists in the normal place. >> After all, that's what people are really requesting. The special >> "Various Artists" artist (that only contains compilations) can continue >> to exist at the top of the list. >> >Isn't that what you get already today by selecting "List compilation >albums under each artist" in the SBS settings ? > No, I think you mis-understood what I meant. I wasn't talking about changing the types of artists that appear in the artist list.
The problem is that albums with AlbumArtist="Various Artists" and no compilation tag are hidden, because they are no compilations, and only compilations are shown under "Various Artists". The suggestion is that all Various Artists albums are turned into compilations such that they are visible under this artist. But that doesn't feel like the right thing to do. I was suggesting to change the SQL that is used to fetch the list of artists, such that it doesn't ignore albums that are albumartist=Various Artists and compilation is null, such that it lists a Various Artists album under "V" that contains all albums that are by Various Artists (either comps or not comps). The "special" artist representing all compilations can remain at the front of the artists lists, even being called "Various Artists" - people can still see a list of albums that have been tagged as comps, or have differing track artists without an album artist. Users that have an albumartist on every album would never see any albums within this special artist record (never have comps) - unless they have specifically added a compilation tag. Even better, would be if the first special artist name was re-labelled something like "[Compilations]" instead of "Various Artists". It would still contain albums that have album artist = Various Artists, or whatever album artist tag value that the user chooses. i.e. the settings param would still be blank representing "Various Artists" for the scanner to assign this value. Better still would be to pull that out into a Browse Compilations menu, so it doesn't need all of the special handling code to reduce the complexity of the querying, display and alphabar support, etc. A user today can change the pref setting to "Compilations", but that means the scanner could set AlbumArtist=Compilations, which is not good for some. It's okay if people always use albumartist tags, because they'd never have any compilations (the current suggested work-around that some users choose to do). _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
