Philip Meyer;363613 Wrote: > >however i get the songs duplicated. for example, on one compilation, i > have > >duran duran - planet earth. however i also have a duran duran album, > >this single song appears under artist next to this album under 'duran > >duran' as a single song as well as in the full compilation under > >'various artists' > > The songs aren't duplicated in your library, they are the same > album/songs, just visible from several places. > > If you had an album with all songs performed by two artists, the album > would appear under both artists. > > Eg. if you enter two artist tags: ARTIST="Pitch" and ARTIST="Potch", > you would find the album listed under both artists. When browsing > albums, you would see the album listed once by Pitch, Potch. > > Having a compilation album or album artist is similar - you have the > album listed under Various Artists or the album artist name, and also > under each performing artist (but only the songs that the artist > performs on). > > There is one caveat to that though - if "Group compilation albums > together" [sic: this means group songs appearing on a compilation > together] the album is only listed under the performing artist if that > artist have other albums in your collection. So, if you have guest > artists on compilation albums or albums with an album artist, they will > not appear in the artist list. > > I think most people like this - if browsing an artist, you want to see > all songs that the artist has performed on. However, you don't want > Browse Artists to be filled up with lots of artists that have only had > a small part on one or two compilation albums.
Thing is I want to browse by artist, but i do not want to see individual songs from compilations under that artists name, i only want to see them under 'various artist' as part of whatever compilation that is. -- steveeedster ------------------------------------------------------------------------ steveeedster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21411 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51928 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
