In search of a song without album artist
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:12 pm
Hi,
first of all, thanks for creating and maintaining this wonderful player.
I have been playing around with it in the last two weeks and it has been great.
The smart mode nearly eliminates the need to be able to browse the music via 'Album Artist', but sometimes I still want to do that.
So I was quite puzzled, when I tried searching for the song currently playing via smart mode by filtering by the song's album artist and was not able to find it in the list of songs below. After deleting the cache, re-indexing the whole library, and some futile tries to add the song manually without landing in the copy-dialog, I figured out the song had no album artist. As the song was part of an album, as most of the songs in my library are, it wasn't really necessary to have the album artist field filled, as the artist field was 'clear enough'.
I went looking for something like a fall back to artist if album artist is null in the options, but couldn't find sth like that. So I went to my music library and copied the artist name to the album artist field if the latter was empty.
On the one hand I would have liked the strategy to use the song artist as album artist, because I'm usually only getting tingly when I add a compilation to my library paying attention to not flood my artists list and I don't pay that much attention when I add an album. On the other hand other users may behave differently.
So I can understand that I didn't find the song, but still I would have expected otherwise and I don't really like the idea that albums I might add to my library in the future - forgetting to add the album artist again - won't show up under the corresponding artist.
What do you think about this? Just tag your damn music? Or would it be worth the effort to add some sort of checkbox?
first of all, thanks for creating and maintaining this wonderful player.
I have been playing around with it in the last two weeks and it has been great.
The smart mode nearly eliminates the need to be able to browse the music via 'Album Artist', but sometimes I still want to do that.
So I was quite puzzled, when I tried searching for the song currently playing via smart mode by filtering by the song's album artist and was not able to find it in the list of songs below. After deleting the cache, re-indexing the whole library, and some futile tries to add the song manually without landing in the copy-dialog, I figured out the song had no album artist. As the song was part of an album, as most of the songs in my library are, it wasn't really necessary to have the album artist field filled, as the artist field was 'clear enough'.
I went looking for something like a fall back to artist if album artist is null in the options, but couldn't find sth like that. So I went to my music library and copied the artist name to the album artist field if the latter was empty.
On the one hand I would have liked the strategy to use the song artist as album artist, because I'm usually only getting tingly when I add a compilation to my library paying attention to not flood my artists list and I don't pay that much attention when I add an album. On the other hand other users may behave differently.
So I can understand that I didn't find the song, but still I would have expected otherwise and I don't really like the idea that albums I might add to my library in the future - forgetting to add the album artist again - won't show up under the corresponding artist.
What do you think about this? Just tag your damn music? Or would it be worth the effort to add some sort of checkbox?