Re: xPLMediaNet - How to deal with Various Artist Albums

["Malcolm Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my experience, if things are tagged properly, then albums have all
tracks
with the same artist, unless its a "various".  However, I do have
a few
albums that are in my "various" folder that only have three
different
artists - each of which has more than 3 tracks per artist.

Problem A) sounds like you are not keeping tracks tied to their albums
other
than by album name, which sounds more dangerous than just the possibility
of
erroneously tagging them as various - doesn't the database currently have a
method to stop the tracks from same-named albums becoming mixed up?

Mal


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 4:53 PM
Subject: [ukha_xpl] xPLMediaNet - How to deal with Various Artist Albums


>
> Hi all,
>
> Have an issue I'd like to get some feedback/comments on please?
>
> Rather stupidly I haven't addressed the issue of Albums with multiple
> artists...
>
> The issue is that when doing something based on album (e.g. jukebox
mode)
> if
> an album has multiple artists it will appear multiple times...
>
> My thought is to add a new field that holds the 'Artist for the
Album'.
> i.e.
> if an album has multiple artists this field will contain 'Various'
rather
> than the actual artist
>
> But this has issues:
>
> A) 2 artists might have albums with the same names, and therefore be
> wrongly
> flagged as various
>
> B) some albums by a single artist, have tags containing extra names on
> some
> tracks...
>
> My thought is to totally ignore issue 'B', the user should tidy their
tags
> ;-)
>
> But 'A' is a major issue I think?
>
> I guess it would be possible to work to a rule like 'if an album has 3
or
> more tracks by same artist then treat as an album by that artist, else
> treat
> it as various'
>
> I'm sure there are going to be exceptions to the rule, so wondered if
> anyone
> has any other suggestions or thoughts please?
>
> Many thanks
> Tony
>
>
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