Artists with albums spanning different genres
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I have some artists in my collection whose albums span different genres, and I always have difficulties browsing these albums using the BluOS app (both desktop and phone).
For instance, consider the scenario where Artist1 has Album1 under Genre1, and Album2 under Genre2. If I go to Library -> Genres -> Genre1 -> Artist1 -> Show All Albums, I can see both Album1 and Album2. Ideally, I should be able to see only Album1, since Album2 belongs to a different genre. Considering that I started browsing my collection via genre, I expect to listen to songs within that genre, and hence, to only be shown albums within that genre. Nevertheless, I am now shown Album2, which doesn't belong to the genre I'm interested in listening to.
As you can imagine, this problem is exacerbated when using the "Various Artists" album artist tag for a large number of albums spanning different genres, since no matter which genre I start browsing with, when I click on "Various Artists", I am shown a really long list of all albums spanning all genres, when I only wanted to see albums belonging to the genre I started browsing with.
I doubt this is a feature and is most likely a bug. Could someone please clarify? Thanks!
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I doubt this is a feature and is most likely a bug. Could someone please clarify? Thanks!
It is in fact a feature and not a common functionality. The concept does go against categorisation and sort rules.
Think back in the day when we used to purchase this content in a record store. Most record stores were sorted by Genre, then Group when you browsed the bins.
That being said we have passed your feedback along but it is not a straight forward implementation as it is one with many many exceptions. This is one of the many reasons it is not in there yet.
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For what it's worth, this behaviour reported above is completely contradictory to the following.
Consider I have Album1 with two tracks. Track1 by artist Artist1 and Track2 by artist Artist2. Both tracks have the album artist tag set to "Various Artists". If I now go to Library -> Artists -> Artist1 -> Album1, I see only Track1. This makes sense since I intended to see only songs by Artist1.
The behaviour regarding genres reported above, however, is inconsistent with this behaviour regarding artists. Some consistency in these two behaviours would be helpful.
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@Tony W. - Thanks for your response. A few comments:
1. Going by your record store analogy and my first post, if you were to browse the Genre1 shelf in a record store and find the Artist1 bin, you should ideally find only Album1 in there; not Album2, since Album2 does not belong to Genre1. Album2 should be in another Artist1 bin in the Genre2 shelf.
2. Going again by your record store analogy but now my second post, how do you explain showing only part of a record, i.e. only Track1, when browsing via Library -> Artists -> Artist1 -> Album1. It's physically impossible to split a record into its tracks.
3. Could you please explain a bit further why this is such a complex implementation and what these exceptions might be? I am a programmer myself and it appears like this is something that could be implemented by adding just one IF statement to the browsing rules.
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O yes, this is so annoying! Even my cheapest Sony Walkman can browse and search on genre, even if multiple genres are used in the same album. This is number 1 on my annoyance list of the BluOS app.
I made this request: https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/14422026178839-Improve-readout-of-Genre-tagging
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