Today I took some time to compare, how SBS DID (Until 7.5.5 including) and DOES (in 7.6) handle artist and composer tag.
Till 7.5.5 everything was fine: If You browsed by album You could simply click on an (track) artist or on an composer's name and SBS showed You, thoses songs this artist/composer contributed to THIS special album. If you chose a song and clicked on an artists/composers name it showed ALL other songs, You have in Your database sung/composed by this particular person. This has been FINE :) The URL/code was like http://127.0.0.1:9000/browsedb.html?hierarchy=contributor,album,track&level=1&contributor.id=195&contributor.role=COMPOSER or http://127.0.0.1:9000/browsedb.html?hierarchy=contributor,album,track&level=1&contributor.id=442&contributor.role=TRACKARTIST so You can easily see, the choise was made by the "contributor.role" part. In 7.6 everything got wired. First of all You CAN'T click on composer's names anymore - if You wanna make them "clickable" then You have to choose the "make composer an artist" option - and the price You pay is, SBS mixes up artist and composer to one "artist_id" - there seems to be no more "contributor.role" model. So If You click on "Bob Dylan" - even If You click on him from an ARTIST-tag - You see all 200 versions of "Blowin' In The Wind" he composed - and You really CAN'T see, which one is really SUNG by him and which one he only COMPOSED. For the web UI (speaking of mp3-files) shows only ONE name from the ARTIST/COMPOSER-mixture - You see in the left frame of the web ui a hunderd times "Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan" - and You can't see, which one is the Stevie Wonder-Version, the Marlene Dietrich-version, the Bryds-Version ... or which is Dylans Original Version... :( The url/code here is like http://127.0.0.1:9000/clixmlbrowser/clicmd=browselibrary+items&artist_id=7057&mode=albums&linktitle=Interpret%20(Petra%20Frey)/ or http://127.0.0.1:9000/clixmlbrowser/clicmd=browselibrary+items&artist_id=261&mode=albums&linktitle=Interpret%20(Toto%20Cutugno)/ don't know where this "linktitle=Interpret" part comes from - I tried to change it to "composer" manually - nothing changed :( Another disadavantage is, clicking on an ARTISTs name on an album page, doesn't show You just the songs on THIS particular album, this person sings on ... but shows all (other) ALBUMS this person sings on ... E.g. You own the new Dave Stewart album where he sings songs with Stevie Nicks and Martina McBride headline says: Track Artist: Dave Stewart, Martina McBride, Stevie Nicks In 7.5.5 clicking on Stevie Nicks' name would show You those song(s) Stevie Nicks sings on - fine, this is what I'm looking for, when I click it. In 7.6 clicking on Stevie Nicks' name shows You ALL (other) albums Stevie Nicks sings on (or composed a song for) - this is definitely NOT the information I'm looking for in first place, when I browse an album ... I'm not quite sure, how to put this in a bug - I think the whole thing of handling ARTIST/COMPOSER - tags and the "ROLE model" needs some work urgently... Would be VERY grateful if You could bring back at least the functionality of 7.5.x ... Thanks in advance Frank -- frank1969 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ frank1969's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31156 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88510 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
