Question about the licence model and browsing through music

[Music-Guy]

(08-07-2022 20:30)simbun Wrote:  

Code:

@COMPILATION=1
+AUDIOTYPE=Compilations
+ARTISTSORT=Various Artists

This is so compilations are sorted together (by date, album essentially)

With the compilations, everything is already exactly as it should be. I am already very happy with that.

(08-07-2022 20:43)simbun Wrote:  I don't really understand your objection to an index that you don't have to select from. Aren't you ever going to want to filter on Radio Plays or Podcasts by artist xyz?

Yes, that is exactly what I want and what is not possible at the moment:
To filter Radio Plays or Podcasts by Artist.
With the current configuration I can only filter them by decade and year, or under Christmas only by artist, decade or year and which of them are compilations.

(08-07-2022 22:44)simbun Wrote:  The reason you're having to fight this so much to get what you want is because you're storing the main artist in the Artist tag for Music. If you stored it in the AlbumArtist field (which is the standard) you'd then be able to use AlbumArtist in the indexTags instead of Artist and then you'd get the functionality you're looking for because the AlbumArtist index ONLY looks at AlbumArtist.

Make the change in a test environment and have a look. You'll also need to change any reference from Artist to AlbumArtist in the other options e.g. Album.sortTags={AlbumArtist, Date, Album}.

This would also mean your Podcasts, Radio Plays e.t.c. would sort by Date, Album (because AlbumArtist would be blank for them).

OK, I'll have to test that, but it will take some time to correct the tags of all the files.
I will report back with the result.

I have already done a short test by changing the Artist to AlbumArtist for two radio plays and changing Artist:Artist to AlbumArtist:Album Artist in the indexTags.

This then displays under "Album Artist" what was previously displayed under "Audio Type Filter".
However, I still cannot filter by Artist when selecting Radio Plays.

Thank you again for your tireless efforts!