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einsteinx2 / WaveBox

A free, open source personal media server written in C# and available on all platforms thanks to the Mono framework. GPL3 Licensed.
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Album Artist instead of Artist #131

Closed benjmiller86 closed 10 years ago

benjmiller86 commented 11 years ago

Not sure if this is a bug or by design. Maybe this is subjective, and there could just be an option. But it would be nice to use the Album Artist tag instead of the Artist tag when listing Artists

I have a lot of random artist from my compilations in my artist view.

mdlayher commented 11 years ago

I think it is possible with the tagging library we're using, but I personally get rid of any "Album Artist" tags and just use "Artist" on each song, so I can't speak to this issue. I prefer it because it scopes the artist per-song, rather than per-album.

benjmiller86 commented 11 years ago

I understand. Not everyone has the same music OCD :smile:

I hope it's an easy addition. Totally fine with an option if possible. Most modern players have this by default (Subsonic, Sonora.app) or at least an option (Enqueue.app, Swinsian.app)

I have a monster 50,000 track library. What's frustrating is having hundreds of artists from my Compilations, Soundtracks, etc, included in the artist view.

einsteinx2 commented 11 years ago

Actually I was noticing some similar name "pollution" on my collection as well. I'll play around with switching to album artist to see what difference it makes, to see which one is a better default. And I agree it would be nice to have it as a setting somewhere.

ikbensuper commented 10 years ago

+1 for this request, had the same polution, came here to see if there already was a request :)

einsteinx2 commented 10 years ago

I've added album artist support to WaveBox server. I added it in such a way as to make this a client side option rather than server side, in keeping with our MO of giving the client the most power possible. This isn't implemented yet in the web interface, but it will be as soon as we get the settings panel finished.

Also, in my very brief testing, I can confirm that using album artist for the main artist list as the default is definitely preferable. It greatly cleaned up my Artist page. For instance, I have one 2Pac album that shows up as like 10 artists because it has the artist tag for each song including features rappers, while the album artist is just 2Pac. I expect this is very common in hip hop/rap releases as well as compilation albums, so using album artist as the default with an option to switch to artist tag would be best.