Roger the Shrubber Wrote:
> Album tags indeed.
>
> The explanation in the interface is then wrong: "A list of articles
> ("the", "les", "los", etc.) to ignore at the beginning of artist or
> album names when sorting." So I guess either the text or the behaviour
> should be fixed.
>
> I definately don't want them to be seen as being on the same album; the
> albums really do have a different name (e.g. the name of the original
> releases). The way I have it now, I can play them chronologically from
> the directory structure. (Directories and album tags are the same and I
> don't want to break that.)
>
> DISC or DISCNUMBER wouldn't work with albums with different names,
> would it? Or maybe there is yet another tag to group them anyway, and
> would that work in SlimServer?
My bad. I just took a look at the data in the albums table and it
looks like this setting is also applied to album names.
I see what you're talking about now - not a disc 1 of 2, disc 2 of 2,
but a collection of albums in a boxed set with individual album names.
You wouldn't want to use DISC or DISCNUMBER in this case.
There's something odd about how the 'sort' version of artist and album
names are stored (though I'm sure there must be a reason for it) - all
punctuation is removed and replaced by spaces. It wouldn't surprise me
then if the [01], [02], etc. wasn't being parsed out of your album names
correctly. You might try just 01, 02.
The thing that strikes me about doing this, though, is that there's
nothing special about the albums having been packaged in a collection.
If you want these albums sorted chronologically, then you'd likely want
this behavior for all artists and all albums. I believe there's an
enhancement request for this behavior. I know that personally I'd also
prefer this sort order. When you're looking at the albums in your
collection from an individual artist, usually it's only a couple of
albums, and seldom more than a dozen or two. Thinking in chronological
terms would be a lot more intuitive for me - alphabetical order for such
a short list is unnecessary.
See:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112
also see
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=103
As someone else pointed out recently, these requests are about a year
and a half old now, so it's hard to say whether or not they'd be given
any serious consideration. Can't hurt, though, to vote for them.
--
JJZolx
Jim
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