>1. The album artist makes sense if I only tag additional featured
>artists as track artists
>
I don't think anyone does that - it's certainly not consistently supported like 
that in SBS.

eg. going back to the hypothetical bonus song by ABBA on the end of an album by 
Metallica; the track artist would be ABBA, and not include Metallica because 
Metallica didn't perform the song with ABBA.  But may be considered an album by 
Metallica.  I don't think anyone would want the song displayed as "Waterloo by 
Metallica & ABBA".

If Metallica DID perform as a guest artist on Waterloo, then the track artists 
should include ABBA and Metallica.  i.e. the artists to be displayed can be 
fully controlled if it only shows track artists, but there's no control if it 
always also includes album artists.

At the moment, it's certainly inconsistently displayed across various UI's.

Classic Squeezebox UI (and I think the Web UI until recently) got this right 
(in my opinion).  When the Display Format contains "artist", it doesn't include 
any album artist.  The Album Artist can be seen in the song details, and is 
used when browsing albums.
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