It would be useful to enable the use of aliases for the artist / album titles from MusicBrainz, see: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Aliases
This will avoid problems of mixing up of English names and non-English names for common artists such as composers like Tchaikovsky which if the "override with online information" is enabled, changes artists to: "Пётр Ильич Чайковский". (see http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/14937). The way I imagine it might be implemented would be:
This will avoid problems of mixing up of English names and non-English names for common artists such as composers like Tchaikovsky which if the "override with online information" is enabled, changes artists to: "Пётр Ильич Чайковский". (see http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/14937). The way I imagine it might be implemented would be:
- to add another setting: "use locale for artist / album display name". For any given artist / album MBID, a query of the alias table would be done, e.g the one for Tchaikovsky is:
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/9ddd7abc-9...e9/aliases
- Then the the current language code (e.g. "en" in my case) would be used find the "primary" alias (in my case: "Peter Tchaikovsky").
- This would also be done for albums.
- An extension might be to allow override of the current locale to allow it to be user-specified to be different from the current locale.
