Unfortunately, it turns out not to be true that if there are only two artists in a tag, they are never reordered by SC. Here's what I've found.
We can distinguish four display contexts: Album Display and Track Display, in the web interface and in the controller. Album Display is when you browse by Album or when youre looking at the Album list for an Artist, or what is displayed as the header for the Album when youre looking at the track list. Track Display is the header when youre looking at the Track details page, and also the display in Now Playing. Whats relevant to this problem is that the failure to give preference to the first artist in a tag only seems to happen in Track Display in the controller. The web interface displays all Artists, whether in Album Display or Track Display (what a concept!), and the controller really does seem to always take the first Artist for Album Display. I've tried it for over a dozen albums now, and no exceptions. The misordering occurs with the controllers Track Display. I consider this to be bad but livable. If in the Album Display I couldnt count on getting Beethoven, say, then it would be necessary to include Beethoven in the album title, otherwise I would have no idea when browsing Albums whose Symphony No. 5 I was looking at without drilling down. Since the problem is restricted to Track Display, only the Now Playing screen is really affected. (After all, the details page for a track shows all artists even in the controller.) And that may be unaesthetic, but it isnt really a problem. I dont need to look at the controller to know that Im hearing Beethoven! And anyway if I dont know and get curious in a listening situation, drilling down is not the irritation it would be when merely browsing. This annoying situation would be resolved if only the controller would display all artists in the Album Display and Track Display contexts, just as the Web interface already does. -- dpotts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dpotts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62878
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