Bugzilla – Bug 2143
Various "Various Artists" issues
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:36:01 UTC
I've been trying out the new Various Artists implementation on the 2005-09-17 nightly and noted the following points. 1. Various Artists still present when "List compilation albums under each artist" is set. The text "You can choose to have compilation albums appear together under "Various Artists" or have them appear under each artist in the compilation" implies to me that you can either have albums appear "Various Artists" OR have albums appear under the artist name. With "List compilation albums under each artist" set, compilation albums appear under the artist name but Various Artist also appears when browsing by artist. That is, you get both behaviours rather than either/or. Is there any way to disable Various Artists appearing? 2. "Various Artists" always appears when searching using the remote control Doing Browse Music / Browse Genres then selecting a particular genre "Various Artists" always appears as the first entry even when there are no Various Artists for this genre.
When selecting Browse Artists in web interface, an entry Various Artists is present at the top of the list allthough no Various Artists album exist in the music collection. When selecting this Various Artist entry, 0 albums with 0 songs by 0 artists is displayed.
I've checked in a fix for #1 as subversion change 4355 #2 is harder - I'll see what I can do.
I tried the 2005-09-20 nightly and both issues seem to be resolved. I don't get Various Artists appearing when using the web browser or remote control. Thanks,
I've checked in subversion change 4385 which should only show a VA item if there are listings below for VA.