Philip Meyer;638579 Wrote: > >I believe this is incorrect. The album.contributor column is used only > >for sorting albums by artist and for generating the alphapagebar. > > If you change the compilation name setting string to "XXX TEST XXX", > and browse Albums > XXX TEST XXX with order "artist, album", each album > will be labelled with XXX TEST XXX. > > If you look in the DB, there will be one contributor record for this > artist name, and album.contributor will point to it. There will be no > tracks referring to contributor role 5 (album artist) pointing at this > contributor record.
Most of the time (not always) it will be exactly the same as the contributor who's name is displayed. But it's not used for retrieving that record. It's easy to see this if you tag an album with two artists (or two album artists) on every track in the album. The album.contributor column will contain just one contributor id number - the one that's used for sorting. The string displayed for the album will contain both artist names, so it's being retrieved by using the contributor_album table. (There's a bug in 7.6 whereby it displays only one of the artists, but prior versions display all of the album artists.) -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88072 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
