>Oh, I didn't look later in the list, I only looked for the first >"Various Artists" entry. > Hence why I think it should really be labelled "Compilations" or "[Various Artists]" - it's not the same as the album artist called "Various Artists".
>I can actually see my album with ALBUMARTIST="Various Artists" in the >second "Various Artists" entry sorted under "V". However, this is new >in 7.6, in 7.5 none of the lists contains my ALBUMARTIST="Various >Artists" album. > So there isn't a problem in 7.6 that needs fixing - already fixed, or is this only after you applied your patch? >In the first entry at the top of the page I only see the albums >explicitly marked as compilations and due to this not the one with >ALBUMARTIST="Various Artists". > >Do we really need two "Various Artists" entries ? > Yes - compilations can have any album artist name; some of which may be "Various Artists", but can be different for each album. i.e. there is no real relationship between compilation flag and album artist name. My "Various Artists" compilation list contains: - Lots of compilations by "Various Artists". - Some compilations that have been compiled/remixed by other artists, such as "Another Late Night: Groove Armada" - a compilation of songs that were mixed together by Groove Armada, thus AlbumArtist=Groove Armada, Compilation=1. I can navigate to Artists > Various Artists (the top entry), and sort the list of albums by Artist, Album. Some people categorise compilations, such as albumartist="Soundtrack", and thus would appear under "Various Artists" but labelled as by "Soundtrack". >Wouldn't it be enough to just remove the top "Various Artists" entry >and keep the one under "V" ? > No - the top Various Artists is a list of compilations, the one within "V" section is only albums by AlbumArtist=Various Artists. I think I'm repeating myself somewhat, but it seems peope don't find it clear what the special artist entry at the top of the list of artists contains. Phil _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
