2016-01-19, 15:55
You can possibly get what you want using custom nodes or smart playlists.
Normal behavior the the default nodes genre > artist > album > songs is to show:
the artists with songs of that genre,
>>the albums by that artist with songs of that genre
>>>the songs of that genre on the album by that artist
Plus you have a (IMO poorly named) setting "include artists who only appear in compilations" that when disabled only shows album artists rather than artists from albums and songs.
Hence, as you have found, under an artist you will get those albums that contains a track that they feature on.
There are pros and cons with this approach. It does find all the songs by an artist, but sometimes you don't want that. Also sometimes having found an album that they play on a track I actually would like to hear all the album not just that track.
But back to that custom node...
Test out using rules to get what you want in smart playlists, same rules can be used in nodes http://kodi.wiki/view/Music_nodes and have its own place on the menu.
What rules. Well have you tagged all the tracks from a compilation album as compilation? I think you can filter that out.
Otherwise it is an interesting question if Kodi could offer both kinds of UI, nodes that work as currently but also those that only give albums where the artist is the album artist. The latter is actually a simpler query.
Normal behavior the the default nodes genre > artist > album > songs is to show:
the artists with songs of that genre,
>>the albums by that artist with songs of that genre
>>>the songs of that genre on the album by that artist
Plus you have a (IMO poorly named) setting "include artists who only appear in compilations" that when disabled only shows album artists rather than artists from albums and songs.
Hence, as you have found, under an artist you will get those albums that contains a track that they feature on.
There are pros and cons with this approach. It does find all the songs by an artist, but sometimes you don't want that. Also sometimes having found an album that they play on a track I actually would like to hear all the album not just that track.
But back to that custom node...
Test out using rules to get what you want in smart playlists, same rules can be used in nodes http://kodi.wiki/view/Music_nodes and have its own place on the menu.
What rules. Well have you tagged all the tracks from a compilation album as compilation? I think you can filter that out.
Otherwise it is an interesting question if Kodi could offer both kinds of UI, nodes that work as currently but also those that only give albums where the artist is the album artist. The latter is actually a simpler query.
