IN the real world there is no such attribute as "album artist", as
discussed in most of this thread. There is an engineered attribute
which was historically used to guide a record shop owner as to where
physically to stock/display an album in their shop (or list it in their
catalogues!).
This attribute was engineered specifically to get round the (otherwise
intractible) 1:M problem of album:song/track artists.
Irrespective of what winamp, wmp ("shudder") etc do or don't do, "album
artist" needs to be reappraised. What do we want to use it for ON A
COMPUTER?
Do we need it at all?
Does anyone ever want to SEARCH (not browse) for "various artists"
albums?
Finally, we need a better way of modelling the contributor roles for a
song/track, and we need to stop denormalising track attributes (primary
artists, secondary artists, composer etc) into being album attributes).
To put it another way, the atomic object is a song (with
composer/lyricist roles). A recording is a point-in-time version of a
song by one or more performers. An ALBUM is a collection of
recordings.
Album Artist (if it has to exist at all) is simply a user-defined
attribute to help the user find one or more albums during an album
search or browse operation...
AS for the whole comp detection thing...
IMO SBS should apply the logic that an album is a comp if there is more
than one "primary" artist across the album tracks.
SO: "See my friends" by Ray Davies et al or Supernatural by Santana are
NOT comps, but Raising Sand is IF you say it has 2 primary artists
"Robert Plant" & "Alison Krauss" or isn't if you say the artist is
"Robert Plant & Alison Krauss".
The compilation tag can then be used to tweak any corner-cases.
--
Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't what you'd call minimal...
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