This has given me some thoughts about compilations. Normally I listen to “whole albums” (including setting up “Virtual Albums” for my “classical” tracks), which is why I said (in the “Compilation Rollup” thread) that I wasn’t too bothered by the proposed dropping of display_by_Artist.
Some of my thinking was that I didn’t want to the clutter the library display with artists for whom I have only one track.
The compromise is that whereas “all” of my compilation albums use AlbumArtist(name) = “Various”, I have gone through them (only a couple of dozen anyway) and changed AlbumArtist(name) to Artist(name) for those tracks that I wish to display with the artist for which I have a full album. This fixes the display issue described above.
The downside is, of course, that the tracks in the compilation album no longer appear in the compilation album’s display, and obviously they won’t play if I select the “complete” compilation album (from the bottom left album icon). But I can live with that.
In an ideal world it would be nice to have the compilation track appear in two places.......but for the moment, it works for me.
Some of my thinking was that I didn’t want to the clutter the library display with artists for whom I have only one track.
The compromise is that whereas “all” of my compilation albums use AlbumArtist(name) = “Various”, I have gone through them (only a couple of dozen anyway) and changed AlbumArtist(name) to Artist(name) for those tracks that I wish to display with the artist for which I have a full album. This fixes the display issue described above.
The downside is, of course, that the tracks in the compilation album no longer appear in the compilation album’s display, and obviously they won’t play if I select the “complete” compilation album (from the bottom left album icon). But I can live with that.
In an ideal world it would be nice to have the compilation track appear in two places.......but for the moment, it works for me.
