Artist vs Album Artist

[goldwinguk]

Love the product when viewing albums, but not a fan of the artist view.

I've been trying to create a skin where the artist view is a little more like the album view. That's failed miserably as it shows no Artist Art (feature request maybe)
What i'd really like to see is it use the Album Artist TAG with compilations if present. At the moment it uses the Artist tag which is fine expect if you have a lot of compilation albums. Then you can end up with thousand s of artists in the artist view 70% of which have 1 or 2 songs. Don't mind them showing in a search but in a browsable touchscreen jukebox it just doesn't work.

[TouchJams Support]

Are you using the latest version of TouchJams?

[dreesje]

I’m also interested in this. How can I configure the “artist” button to filter on “album artist” instead of artist or is it possible to add a button for “album artist” ?

[blueshield5811]

I have wondered this too and am having the same issue. Using the Aprl 19,2018 build version 3.5.1.5 Std. I am also having a similar thing pop up even on Album view, maybe I am not setting it up right I am still tinkering with it. On album view I have multiple views of the same album coming up and they appear to be coming up by each artist on the album, especially on compilation albums with multiple contributing artists.

[TouchJams Support]

blueshield5811, have you read this:

www.touchjams.com/webhelp/index.htm#page=Media_Library_Recommendations.htm

Note:

1) All files under each leaf folder will be treated as an album
2) All files under each leaf folder need to have the same exact Album tag

[tonyneen]

Sept 11, 2017 15:57:52 GMT goldwinguk said:

Love the product when viewing albums, but not a fan of the artist view.

I've been trying to create a skin where the artist view is a little more like the album view. That's failed miserably as it shows no Artist Art (feature request maybe)
What i'd really like to see is it use the Album Artist TAG with compilations if present. At the moment it uses the Artist tag which is fine expect if you have a lot of compilation albums. Then you can end up with thousand s of artists in the artist view 70% of which have 1 or 2 songs. Don't mind them showing in a search but in a browsable touchscreen jukebox it just doesn't work.

What i did to help with the 1000's of artists in Artist view, was to remove the Feat., vs., with, presents ect from the Artist Tag, just leaving the main artists name and re added the removed info to the song title in (.......). Tidys it up and you still have all the song info. Hope it helps.

Tony