I agree that it's inconvenient to have to put the composer and (main) performer in the album title. IMO treating the composer as artist more consistently would solve a big part of the problem.
As it is now, composers are treated as artists if you browse by artist. But if you browse albums, they're not. And on the album page of the web UI, the composer is given, but not on the controller: as you say here you have to drill down to the info of one track. Let's compare a rock album and a classical one, e.g. The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and The Band and the Goldberg Variations played by Glenn Gould. If you browse by artist you will see Bob Dylan and The Band, which both lead to the album. But on the artist page with album listing, the controller only gives the first artist (in my case Bob Dylan). One level further (the album page), it is the same. Only on the individual track page both are mentioned. Now for the classical album: it behaves the same, but here it will always be the performer (artist) that is mentioned. In the Web UI, it's a bit better, but also more inconsistent. If you go to the artist page of the Band, you will see The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan, The Band. But if you go to Bach, you get an album listing with only the performer (artist). And if you go to Glenn Gould's album page, you will have the Goldberg Variations without any mention of Bach. If you go to the album page, both composer and performer (artist) are stated. If the composer was consistently handled as the (preferably main) artist, things would be already be a lot better in the Web UI: we would have both composer and performer on the composer or artist page and on the album page. On the controller more work would have to be done to make it show the same. In this scenario, the main reason I (and a lot of others) have added the composer and artist to the album title would no longer exist. Of course, when I browse to Glenn Gould and see Goldberg Variations, I know the composer is Bach. The real problem arises when I browse to Haitink and see several titles 'Complete symphonies', or go to Angela Hewitt and see several entries 'Complete Piano Works'. Also, when browsing Home > Albums, the composer is no longer handled as artist. You won't see Bach or Beethoven anywhere, independent of what sort order you choose. Overall I can live with the conventions I have chosen, but a lot of the extra hassle would be solved if 1. The composer was consistently handled as the (main) artist and 2. The controller would give the same info as the Web UI. Teus -- Teus de Jong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Teus de Jong's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15415 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62878 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
