pippin wrote: > Is this today's build of 7.9.0? If not, please update, just to be sure > that it's not an old bug. > Also, please tell me what your settings for artist handling in LMS are > under "Settings->My Music->Browse Artists". > > What's happening in your case is that the server doesn't return an > "artist" for the current track - at all. What you are seeing is the list > of "additional artist roles", which comes in composer first. Since iPeng > overwrites the value in the current playlist for the currently playing > track (since it has _more_ information about that track than is > available in the playlist) it replaces the artist with this list. > > Usually "artist" is the default artist to be used on a track, at least > it used to be so before LMS 7.9 and I would consider it a regression if > it no longer is independent of all the changes to artwork handling in > 7.9. > That's what iPeng shows first - if present. If the "artist" is missing, > iPeng then shows the list of additional roles, composer first. That's > the same order used by the web interface and SqueezePlay, I believe, I > think that'S where I got it from.
I've seen this for a very long time before 7.8 and now with 7.9 ( I've nagged about it before :) ) You get similar random results if the track has an albumartist and then several artist the albumartist is never what's get presented the list just pick one artist ? I shall try the setting you propose ,,it migth do,something .... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
