Bugzilla – Bug 2827
Add CLI support for "Various Artists"
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
Add support to the CLI to enable retrieval of albums for "Various Artists" as in the web interface (when "group compilation albums together" is enabled for server).
This shoule already be possible. 'various artists' has an artist id like any other, does it not?
(In reply to comment #1) Yes, but the id is not returned in response to the CLI command: artists 0 1 tags: search:Various%20Artists Also, I've experimented by editing an MP3 file so that it has an artist tag of "Various Artists". This results in two entries for "Various Artists" in the artist list - one for the compilations immediately after "All Albums" and one for the edited file near the end of the list. Each of these has a different artist id. The above CLI command returns the id for the edited entry, not for the compilations entry. The URL for retrieving the compilation albums includes "album.compilation=1" in addition to the artist id, which suggests that this is a special case.
Fred, any thoughts?
Well, your reaction was my reaction but this is not the way the DB is built apparently. I have to investigate how this setting works. I have not used it a lot personally (and for various reasons I do not have a test for it in my program).
right, I think I'm going bakc to an earlier implementation. Now, it looks like it is the album compilation tag that flags various artists. You can see this being used for browseDB in Web/Pages/BrowseDB, line 94-110
Fred - has this been fixed for 6.5? Thanks
I do believe this should work in 6.5 now.
Yes, whenever I find the time to fix all the DB code in Queries.pm...
Fred - I'm going to assign this to you, as I know you're still making passes at the CLI DB code.
SVN 8842, queries should handle VA gracefully