Limit Default Display of Artists to Filter Out Artists in Compilation Albums
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Laurence C.
Please consider this feature as an advanced setting for those of us with many albums that are compilations of certain genres: These compilation albums often have only one song by a given artist/band/composer. When stored as local files, the result is a folder for the artist and perhaps their album, or the name of the compilation album nested, and then the one song. This results in numerous one-song-artists in the library, cluttering up the library and undesirably lengthening the overall list of artists or albums.
Just imagine a dozen compilation albums of electronic or hip-hop artists and the "clutter" that would create when trying to just scroll through one's list of artists in Conductor!
It would be helpful to set a default, user-selectable display threshold for an artist or album to be displayed in the artist or album view. The threshold might be something like an artist must have at least ___ songs AND (logical "and") ____ albums in order to be displayed in the artist list. For me, I would myself set this to two songs and two albums. And perhaps this could be easily toggled on and off...so you can see how this can quickly get complicated, but I suggest starting with a simple setting which is disabled by default, and then let user feedback guide how much more filtering is helpful.
Thank you for reading and considering.
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Robert Kunen
Why is this not picked up? I find this an important one!
Let me explain it another way.
So let’s say I want to listen an evening to Queen. I search Queen under artists, select Queen in the results and see all their albums and add all of them to the playlist in shuffle. Great. Hey, no, not great. It plays other music. What happened?
Actually, Conductor didn’t only find Queen albums under Queen, but also all albums with various artists that have one Queen track on them. And I have quite some of those compilation albums in my library..
Can you add the option to exclude these mixed albums, so that when I look under Queen albums, I really only find those albums where Queen is the album artist and not albums with Various Artists.