Give me your tired, your hungry, your Various Artists

[Jeff Mitchell]

On 3/20/2010 5:26 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Jeff Mitchell at 20/03/10 16:03 did gyre and gimble:
>> On 03/20/2010 10:58 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>> The collection scanner does read them in but as I mentioned this is not
>>> actual read into the database.
>>>
>>> The patch I linked fixes that and with it applied the album artist tags
>>> do get into the database :)
>>
>> This brings up a deeper problem, which is: if you have both album and
>> album artist tags, which do you display when viewing artists in the
>> collection browser?
>>
>> The answer isn't obvious and depends strongly on personal preference.
> 
> I guess the display preference would be solved by the approach outlined
> at the end of my mail, tho' simple it is not :p

Nope...far too complicated for the current time. Plus someone would have
to actually fix the collection browser first :-)

Your emails are a bit of a mixed blessing. On one hand it's a lot of
food for thought. On the other hand, it severely complicates what I had
planned to do  :-)

--Jeff

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