The main reason is a very simple one: For broadcasting purposes, I
-need- (and want) all songs I have from any one artist stored together,
namely, in (below) an »artist« folder. Let’s say I’m more interested in
which titles I have than on which album they were.

It’s still nice (and needed because of legal playing restrictions) to
know on which albums and/or compilations they were. So if I had a
compilation having a Queen song and a Pink Floyd song, they would end
up in something like

M:\Music\Queen\xxx
M:\Music\Pink Floyd\xxx

Of course the single songs would still have the album name of the
compilation (like »Greatest Rock Songs«), also COMPILATION (or TCMP)
would be set. They would also have the same ALBUMARTISTSORT, the same
ALBUMARTIST, the same MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM ID and so on. So there would be
enough tags to uniquely aggregate all of them back into an album. Since
SC is basically an album-oriented system, I’d like it to do this job
correctly.

In case you wonder how I’d group compilations together -without- SC — I
use simple playlists, generated by Mp3tag when I check the songs into
the system, i.e.

M:\Playlists\Albums\Various Artists - Greatest Rock Songs.m3u

Hope this clarifies it a bit. It’s sometimes not easy to explain a
complicated issue for users and developers alike ;-) (In my case, I
tend to get too technical, apologies.)


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