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Re: Various Artists nationality

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 05:06:40 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/27/2016 10:06

perhaps we could just add "Various Artists [(Nationality)]" as separate artists only as needed? I doubt we'd end up with that many of those anyway, so it wouldn't crowd or confuse things too much

Re: Various Artists nationality

albummaster — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 04:57:50 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 01/27/2016 09:57

19loveless91 wrote:

Would it be possible to edit the nationality for specific albums (on admin album pages) in case they are Various Artists releases? Like, if an album is by a band from a specific country, it gets assigned that country automatically, but with a V/A release, you can change that?

I'll definitely look into it and see what can be done to change how the site works without overcomplicating things & this might be one way of handling things. Another way might be to have 'child artists' of VA with the different nationalities as it keeps the nationality at artist level rather than against each album (although I wouldn't want to see a huge list of these child artists on a VA page). The whole nature of VA is entirely different to other types of artist as they are largely of unique composition for each album they are attributed to and it's about finding a neat solution to this that doesn't affect the workings of the rest of the site.

Re: Various Artists nationality

Hayden — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:41:41 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 01/25/2016 15:41

I remember trying this (maybe 2 years ago or so) with a compilation 100% from Nigerian artists, so I tried to add it as 'Various Artists From Nigeria', and it was changed within a few days.

I thought it would be fine, but oh well. Haven't tried since.

Re: Various Artists nationality

19loveless91 — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 06:49:02 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 01/25/2016 11:49

Would it be possible to edit the nationality for specific albums (on admin album pages) in case they are Various Artists releases? Like, if an album is by a band from a specific country, it gets assigned that country automatically, but with a V/A release, you can change that?

Re: Various Artists nationality

albummaster — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 06:00:31 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 01/25/2016 11:00

it's not possible at the moment due to the way the site is set up (the alternative would be to end up with one VA for each nation which would be a bit confusing when browsing the site, adding albums etc)

Various Artists nationality

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 01:37:10 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/25/2016 06:37

So in quite a few cases, a VA release might consist entirely of artists from a single country. Any way we might be able to have an option to make "Various Artists" appear from a specific country for certain releases rather than just the default of "mixed nationality"?