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#16 Various Artist albums should be displayed better

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2004-07-03
2004-07-02
No

0.5.0 fixed the bug where you couldn't view all tracks
in a VA album, but now a VA album is displayed with the
tracks in alphabetical order by artist name and grouped
by artist. The tracks should be displayed in track
number order so the album is played in the proper order
when you enqueue the entire VA album. If no track
number data is available, sorting by artist name would
be fine.

There is also another issue related to this where
tracks by the same artist on a VA album are grouped
together, even though they may not have sequential
track numbers. Example (sorry for the poor
formatting). Note the tracks by Nathan Fake and Zeta
Reticula.

Artist: [Avus]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
8. Real [5:02]

Artist: [Baby Ford & The Ifach Collective]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
6. Bad Friday [1:45]

Artist: [DJ Esp]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
9. No Future EP: No Future (Soundburnt mix) [2:14]

Artist: [FortDax]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
13. Fortune Telling Fish, Curled to Suggest 'Home'
[2:07]

Artist: [Hermann & Kleine]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
16. Leaving You Behind (Without Knowing Where to Go)
[5:45]

Artist: [Jake Fairley]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
3. Oshawa [2:19]

Artist: [Jase From Outta Space]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
10. Do What You Want (feat. Claire) (Infusion's Sky
mix) [7:35]

Artist: [Meta.83]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
2. Metalgroove EP: Antrieb [1:53]

Artist: [The MFA]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
1. The Difference It Makes (original mix) [6:25]

Artist: [Nathan Fake]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
11. Outhouse (Fluffy mix) [3:16]
12. Outhouse (original mix) [8:49]

Artist: [Petter]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
5. All Together [7:03]
15. These Days (instrumental) [8:02]

Artist: [PQM]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
14. You Are Sleeping (PQM Meets Luke Chable Vocal
Pass) [6:33]

Artist: [Zeta Reticula]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James
Holden)]
4. Tool 1 [1:19]
7. Tool 3 [1:00]

Ideally I would like to see VA albums listed just like
any other album, with artist data displayed before the
track name like this:

Artist: [Various Artists]
Album: [Balance 005 (disc 1: mixed by James Holden)]
1. The MFA - The Difference It Makes (original mix) [6:25]
2. Meta.83 - Metalgroove EP: Antrieb [1:53]
and so on... the artist name would link to a standard
artist query.

Discussion

  • Chris Smith

    Chris Smith - 2004-07-03
    • status: open --> closed
     
  • Chris Smith

    Chris Smith - 2004-07-03

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    hahaha you read my mind... fixed this today =)

    Various artist albums are now displayed properly when more
    than one track for the album is displayed. The media library
    doesn't report the "compilation" tag so we fake it by
    examining the artists and using "Various Artists" as the
    artist for the album if more than one artist is found on the
    album. If an album is a compilation, we display the artist
    for each track as a column in the table.

    This is almost identical to your example above =).

     

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