I fear I may be digging up a can of worms given all the other discussions about the treatment of ARTIST, ALBUMARTIST and COMPILATION tags, but I haven't found any other threads about this particular issue....so I thought I would take the risk of raising it now.
As background, I am running 7.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.3. I have 'Group compilation albums together' and 'List albums by band' set. As far as I understand, when browsing by ARTIST only those artists that have a (non-compilation) album in their own name are listed, ie an ARTIST that appears only on, say, one track on a compilation album (ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists) does not show in the browsing list. Compilation Albums are listed together under 'Various Artists'. This much I am happy with as it massively reduces the size of the 'Browse by Artist' list and restricts it to the 'main' artists in my collection. However, when I Search for Artists on the Controller it seems to restrict the search only to this reduced list. I would much prefer 'Search' to search for ALL Artists, ie even those not included in the 'Browse' list. As an example, the other night I was asked 'Do you have any Ian Dury in your collection'. I duly searched for the Artist Ian Dury and the Controller told me I had 'no search results'. However, on further investigation, I do have a couple of tracks by Ian Dury on a couple of compilation albums. Both these tracks have ARTIST=Ian Dury and ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists and COMPILATION=Yes and are listed fine when I managed to find the album and browse through its tracks. Could 'Search' be broadened to search ALL artists, or should I be doing something differently to achieve this? Many thanks WhaleOil -- WhaleOil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhaleOil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
