CatBus;299426 Wrote: > 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.
aha - this I totally agree with. maybe an option: "display Whole album containing compiled tracks by artist" vs. "display only tracks by selected artist" (or something like that?) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 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
