zjays/nightingale-gridview

Gridview Addon for Nightingale - Addon originally developed for Songbird by "JohnM". I don't fully understand how this code works and not willing to spend too much time figuring it out, so if somebody else wants to fix issues or add new features, feel free to create pull requests!

nightingale-gridview's Issues

List view won't filter by artist if switching directly from Filter Pane View to Grid View

If switching directly from the Filter Pane View (and possibly other media views installed via add-ons) to Grid View, the underlying list view won't filter by artist when clicking album art in the grid. Proper functionality is only achieved if the user switches to the List View and then switches directly to Grid View.

Playlist is filtered based on Artist instead of Album Artist

Setup:
Nightingale 1.12.2a, Build 2455 (20140613141836) (but 1.12.1 behaves the same)
GridView 0.5.2
Preferences / Grid View / Ignore Album Artist property is unselected

Problem:
Tracks are not being displayed in the playlist when selecting an Artist in the GridView if Artist is not the same as Album Artist.

Background:
Albums having multiple different Artists may have an uniform Album Artist in order to prevent media players to think there are multiple Albums with the same Album Title from different Artists. If the Album Artist is configured and configured to be the same across all tracks on an Album, the tracks can have different Artists, still handled as one Album.

Details:
There is a problem in the way GridView filters the playlist to show the Tracks related to a given Artist when an Artist is selected in the Grid.
Instead of filtering the playlist to include every item with Album Artist matching the selection, it actually filters the playlist to show Tracks where Artist matches the selection. As a result only those Tracks are shown, which have the same Album Artist as Artist. If Artist is different from Album Artist the Track cannot be accessed in this view.

Example:
Lets say we have 2 tracks in a playlist:
1.) Artist: "Artist1 feat. Artist2"; Album: "GoodLP"; Album Artist: "Artist1"
2.) Artist: "Artist1"; Album: "GoodLP"; Album Artist: "Artist1"

Expected behaviour:
GridView displays an item with title "Artist1" and when this item is selected the playlist shows both tracks.

Actual behaviour:
GridView displays an item with title "Artist1" and when this item is selected the playlist only shows Track 2, where Album Artist is the same as Artist.