Compilations

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Having a lot of compilations, it would be nice to be able to have a list for 
these (like in iTunes), and not having these artists show up in the artist list.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by eacornel...@gmail.com on 10 Jan 2011 at 9:39

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Was not supposed to mark this as an defect...

Original comment by eacornel...@gmail.com on 10 Jan 2011 at 9:42

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Are you referring to "Various Artist" type albums?   I have changed this to an 
enhancement.

Original comment by mellowaredev on 10 Jan 2011 at 11:43

• Added labels: Priority-Low, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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Yes, compilations with various artists.
Ex: an compilation with 15 different artists will now be shown in the artist's 
list as 15 different artists with one song each, making a big mess in the list. 
With the help of iTunes "Part of a compilation" users get rid of this problem, 
but TunesRemote+ seems to ignore this. Found this article, that might describe 
it better:
http://1337g33k.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/itunes-compilation-checkbox/

Kind regards: Espen André.

Original comment by eacornel...@gmail.com on 10 Jan 2011 at 8:12

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gotcha,  So even though you have that marked as Part of Compilation in your 
iTunes the Tunesremote+ is still showing it with 1 song per artist?   I wonder 
if the Apple Remote is filtering these out or whether the way it queries iTunes 
is slightly different than the way TunesRemote+ is telling iTunes to filter 
these out.

Original comment by mellowaredev on 10 Jan 2011 at 8:18

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Oh, you almost lost me there: I'm just a very greatful user. :)
Yes the "Part of compilation" is marked, and I then have a bunch of albums 
showing up in iTunes "Compilation" group. Could it have something to do with 
TunesRemote+ not sorting tunes after "Album", and "Part of Compilation" is a 
option in that content...?

Good luck and thanks!

Espen André

Original comment by eacornel...@gmail.com on 10 Jan 2011 at 11:20

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I am just not sure about this one or how to tackle it.

Original comment by mellowaredev on 29 Mar 2011 at 12:39

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TunesRemote+ have an option where you can view all the artists. Could it be 
possible to overcome this issue by letting the user be able to sort by album 
also...? :)

Original comment by eacornel...@gmail.com on 29 Mar 2011 at 6:57

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I think this Browse By Album feature is what you are looking for?

http://code.google.com/p/tunesremote-plus/issues/detail?id=8

Original comment by mellowaredev on 29 Mar 2011 at 7:06

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Yes, as a workaround I guess it could work...? I'm no programmer though, but
I have a lot of artists to browse through because of all my compilations
(Various Artists)... :)

Original comment by eacornel...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2011 at 4:05

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You could always have it sort by album artist. Then, users can select all 
compilations in iTunes and rename the album artist "Various Artists." This is 
an easy and effective way to work around it, but probably not the best possible 
one, since itunes of course has a different way of handling compilations.

Original comment by dacohe...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2011 at 5:05

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There are two properties you can add to the meta list in the items query 
depending on how you want to tackle this one:

daap.songcompilation will return a 0 or 1 in the "asco" field of the result
daap.songalbumartist will return a string in the "asaa" field.  If this string 
is of length 0 then the album artist is just the song artist.  I think this is 
where "Various Artists" type strings are to be found.

Original comment by nick.gl...@lycos.com on 4 Jun 2011 at 9:48

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Nick have you done some DACP reverse engineering?  This is good information 
that I had never seen before.  Might be tricky to add into the TunesRemote+ 
code but I haven't dived deeply into it yet if anyone wants to take a shot at a 
patch.

Original comment by mellowaredev on 6 Jun 2011 at 12:02

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Yes but not these.
http://www.deleet.de/projekte/daap/?ContentCodes
I'll drop you a mail after work.

Original comment by nick.gl...@lycos.com on 6 Jun 2011 at 2:03