There are two kinds of "VA logic" at play: 1) The logic that determines whether or not an album is a compilation, and 2) The logic that determines how compilations should be displayed in the interface.
In my opinion, the logic for #1 is PERFECT...and I don't use that word lightly because I'm very particular about how I tag my collection. If you're willing to do some minor housekeeping with explicit COMPILATION tags, you have the flexibility to do anything you want, without breaking compatibility with other music management software. Considering how many organizational styles there are out there, this is pretty much the only way I can imagine accommodating them all. Excellent work, SlimDevices! The logic for #2 on the other hand...could use some cleaning up. For example, I'm one of those dinosaurs who pretty much exclusively plays albums straight through. But what happens when you have an artist with a full album, but they are also featured on a compilation? Right now, no matter which compilation options you choose, when you browse by artist, you get the full albums, plus little compilation "stubs" that only show the one or two songs from that compilation associated with that artist. If I'm interested in playing the compilation at all, I'd want to play the whole thing, because that's my style. So for me, the compilations should either not be listed at all under the artists, or they should be listed as complete albums. Ideally if they are listed under the artist, they would all be sorted after the artist's proper albums. But then that's just for album-playing dinosaurs like me--others would argue vehemently that this is exactly the wrong way to do things, and they'd be right--for them. #2 is the path to insanity for software developers though. Getting a "YES" or "NO" answer to the question "Is this a compilation?" is well-suited to automation and SD deals with the problem admirably. How to display that data is an open-ended question with nearly infinite answers, and that's NOT quite so well-suited for automation. -- CatBus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47297 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
