>What about the composer? Would you consider him a contributor or not? > >Maybe only the wording is wrong and we're not talking about Artists here, >but Contributors. Or the count is wrong as it does not only count the >Artist, but the other contributors too. Anyway we change it I'm sure >people would complain, as eg. classical music often isn't catalogued by >the artist (solist? orchestra? conductor?) but by the composer etc. > Was this a change made to solve some other problem/bug report?
Album artist is a way of grouping songs under one artist when there are guest appearances on some songs, instead of appearing as a compilation or various artists album. Album artist doesn't have meaning for classical albums, does it? From a user perspective, the album artist isn't a contributor to a track, it's a means to get songs grouped onto an album correctly. Mixing album artists and contributors together in counts isn't correct. The album artist (or band?) should override any type of song contributor when displaying album information. What about a compilation/various artist albums? If I have a various artist album with 5 tracks by different artists, I would expect to see either "1 album with 5 songs by 5 artists" or "1 album with 5 songs by 1 artist" (arguable here which would be most correct), but not 6 artists. If I look at an individual song on a various artists album, it only reports the contributing artists, not the album artist as "various artists". Artist, track artist, conductor, composer, etc, are all contributors to the song. Album artist is kind of like artistsort isn't it? It's used for presentation - grouping the album under that artist in the artist list. I'm a little less uncertain about BAND, which is widely used like album artist, but maybe could be considered as a real contributor to a song, rather than presentation/grouping. Phil _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
