extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/playlist

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

Ok, I will have a go at it this way! :-)

- Nikolaj

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Maximilian Kossick
<maximilian.kossick at googlemail.com> wrote:
> oups, forwarding this to the list too.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Maximilian Kossick <maximilian.kossick at googlemail.com>
> Date: Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/playlist
> To: Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
> <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> comparing only the album names is likely going to break for "Greatest
>>> Hits" albums and friends. Only the combination of album name and
>>> albumartist name (if available) is unique.
>>
>> This will break "various artits" albums however...
>>
>> None of the ways we have tried / proposed so far has been perfect. I
>> am recommending, for now, as a pragmatic holdover, to just use album
>> names, as this is what has caused the least amount of annoyances in
>> the testing that I have done. As I wrote, this is very high on my post
>> 2.0.0 todo list, so it is not something I see as a permanent solution.
>>
>> - Nikolaj
>>
>
> Various artists albums should not have an album artist (ie.
> albumArtist() == 0). Because SqlCollection handles this correctly,
> using the algorithm I outlined above ("if available" refers to the
> case where albumArtist() == 0) it will work correctly for a very
> common use case of amarok
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