Teus de Jong;424044 Wrote: > 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.
Exactly so. For myself, what I've done about this is to add the composer to the artist tags (both for album and track), and in the first position, which seems to guarantee a display preference. I don't like doing it, but it gets the display job done. It is unfortunate that if there are more than three artists, such as a composer and two performers, the display preference for the first position no longer seems guaranteed. Perhaps what the developers should consider is, first, displaying all artists in the controller, as is done in the web interface, and second, giving an option to display composer along with them. I wouldn't care about which comes first if all were displayed. I only care about giving preference to the first because, as long as only one can be displayed in the controller, I want to control which it is. This wouldn't be a complete solution because composers wouldn't thereby show up in the artists list. Of course, you can turn on the existing option for that, but then you get nonclassical composers as well as classical. That could have the effect of adding a lot of relatively meaningless names. Maybe the option could apply specifically to the Classical genre. I'm glad it's not my job to design this for the rest of the world! Fwiw, I do add distinguishing information to the album title where there are more than one of the same name. For example, "Symphony No. 5 (Karajan)", "Symphony No. 5 (Solte)", etc. -David -- dpotts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dpotts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62878 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
