Bugzilla – Bug 17340
Display track artists per song, not in album info
Last modified: 2011-08-13 19:53:27 UTC
This can be seen in the display of album information for compilations. A long list of track artists is shown at the top as part of the album information, but nothing is done to display them in the track list. It's cluttered, ugly, and not very useful. SBS 7.5's handling of this was ideal. When [track artists] <> [album artist] and ARTIST is not part of the title format it adds 'by ARTIST' to the song listing.
Created attachment 7341 [details] screenshot Example screenshot of compilation album using default title format.
I was just reminded... bug 16554 is somewhat related. All of these song and artist name formatting problems are the result of the onebrowser work.
Just to be sure I do understand: in album info, you'd only want to see the ALBUMARTIST, but not the list of track artists, whereas in the track list you'd like to see the track artists, but not the album artist?
Created attachment 7342 [details] VA album in 7.5 That's correct (if by album info you mean the information displayed at the top of the page). That's essentially how 7.5 works. See the attached screencap of the same album displayed in 7.5.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #32875 to the slim repo by mherger == == http://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?view=revision&revision=32875 == Bug: 17340 Description: in track listings we should give the trackartist precedence over the artist (if defined)
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #32876 to the slim repo by mherger == == http://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?view=revision&revision=32876 == Bug: 17340 Description: if a trackartist is different from the album artist, and it's not part of the formatted title, add it
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #32877 to the slim repo by mherger == == http://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?view=revision&revision=32877 == Fixed Bug: 17340 Description: if an album is flagged a compilation, then suppress the track artists in the album's header in the album info page
Created attachment 7344 [details] Non-compilation with guest artists in 7.6 Nicely done. Thanks. Can the same be done with non-compilations? See the screencap to see what I mean. Since the track artists are being shown below per track, there's no need to show them in the album info.
Also: Could this have had some side effect in SqueezePlay? I'm seeing the track artist displayed there in parentheses for all albums now, including non-compilations.
The SqueezePlay problem has been fixed. In the web ui, can the individual songs in the list be given the same treatment as in 7.5 (and as in the current playlist)? That is, with each individual artist linked instead of he whole string being a single link to the song.
This appears to have been lost in the shuffle. There are still a number of problems in the web interface with regard to title formatting and track listings. Closing this bug. Will open individual bugs for the remaining problems.
please link to the new bugs so i can follow/vote em, thx