In all of my years of ripping and occasional retagging, I have never changed or specified “Album Artist”. I have “Album Artist” in about 20% of my music (if that) and most of them are the trouble items.

I click on “Artist” in Remote App and I see things like “1996″, “4″, “FLAC”, where for some reason “Album Artist” was not correctly specified. Yet ALL of my “Artist” tags are perfect.

That being said…. is there a way of making the setting such that “Artist” is used before “Album Artist”??? If not as the default, maybe it could be a setting option we could choose?

I am guessing, pure conjecture, that most files out there are tagged correctly by “Artist” more often than “Album Artist”. Unless it is a various artist, tribute, or other album where someone carefully tagged.

I always thought that if it was, e.g., Yo Yo Ma playing Bach, that the “Album Artist” was YoYoMa, and the “Artist” was Bach. That way all Bach is found under “Bach”. I see how I could have been backwards on that. But nevertheless, I think “Artist” is ALWAYS used whereas “Album Artist” is not and is often wrong….

Just a thought…. too many beers and too much wine…. and some tequila.

loving the component,
p

it seems like it is working correctly. See my question/comment in the other thread regarding which is uses first if the two artist tags are different.

thanks!

Anyway, grab a new version and see if artists are working as expected.

Standard “Artist” tags will remain right? I dont know if I am using “Album Artist” on any of the thousands I have.

I just did some spot checkingand not one of them is tagged with album artist unfortunately.

thank again!
-Patrick

Standard “Artist” tags will remain right? I dont know if I am using “Album Artist” on any of the thousands I have.

thank again!
-Patrick

Juan,
crashes on NP screen are possible now since iphone app gets unresized picture and could run out of memory. That would be also fixed.
And packets on startup are completely normal thing. Client loads playlists, albums and artists to show them quickly when needed. Current public version doesn’t compress traffic so it could be heavy. The dev build already uses gzip compression, so it should reduce the amount of data sent over network and speed-up loading.

P.S. There will be a new version in a few days.

You are right, the art work moves very responsive and feels light in the album list view, is only in NP screen where it get heavy and unresponsive.

I have checked and I had the updated versions of the app and ipod soft, I could isolate a couple of artworks that makes the app crash whenever loaded into the NP screen. I tried that same file with itunes and noprob.

The packets start to transfer since the apps connects, (the moment the ipod app shows “loading”) and they continue for minutes, I will try to measure the differences in traffic with itunes and foobar using the same library and post the results.

Again thanks for the work