MrSinatra;513142 Wrote: > if the AA tag is "Various Artists" its a comp most likely. go on > ignoring that, (and the de facto standard of the marketplace). > That is not a defacto standard. There is no standard relationship between compilation tag and album artist tag. Most apps don't even have a concept of compilations. Those that do, do not automatically make an album a compilation when the album artist is some magic string.
eg. If I set album artist = Various Artists, iTunes will not automatically report that the album is a compilation. I have to set the compilation tag for it to be a compilation. MrSinatra;513142 Wrote: > i don't see why its so crucial for SBS to know something is a comp to > begin with? > It's not crucial for SBS to know something is a compilation. It's how groups an album up such that there is one album artist. If it didn't, then it would have to have some other logic/guess as to whom the album artist should be. MrSinatra;513142 Wrote: > do you really want all your comps in one big generic category? Yes, actually I do. It's no different to not having compilations, but having all such albums tagged with an Album Artist. i.e. they get put together somewhere. I'd prefer it if there was a Browse Compilations (instead of Browse Artists > Various Artists), but that should be a front-end UI presentation issue more than anything. It's how iTunes presents such albums. Custom Browse plugin can provide this menu in SBS. I actually browse them usually via Browse Genres > [choose a genre] > Various Artists, to find for example Rock Compilation albums. i.e. they are not necessarily all stuck in one generic category - they work like normal albums, but with an extra propery that allows them to be separated out if wanted. -- Philip Meyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=95 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74700 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
