erland;644157 Wrote: 
> This is how it worked a few weeks ago, both in 7.5 and 7.6:
> http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=639198#post639198
> 
> I'm not sure if I covered the specific case mentioned in this thread
> but I tried to cover all possible variants of ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST and
> COMPILATION tags.

i don't think so.  your 5 examples, (and excellent work btw!), don't
cover Phil Leigh's example here.

his example is an album that:

has no AA
has multiple artists per track
has a comp = 0 tag

interestingly, i'm not sure the comp=0 tag is even needed, b/c while
all his tracks have more than one artist listed, they are the SAME
multiple artists on every track on the album.  so i don't know if SBS
would detect that as a VA album or not?

Phil Leigh;644158 Wrote: 
> in my example, there are two ARTISTs: Mark and Emmylou. Therefore (as
> 7.5 used to do) there should be 2 synthetic " album artists "; Mark and
> Emmylou. Simple.

not for sorting.  the album will only be there once, so who is it
under?  thats what i'm asking Jim basically.

JJZolx;644160 Wrote: 
> The artist selected for sorting purposes (albums.contributor) would
> appear to be the first one in the tags.

fair enough.  but my more basic point is WHY that one?  why not the
other one?  (and obviously, if it were the other one, not not the first
one?)  i mean, as an end result, it feels wrong somehow for the album to
be listed twice, but it also feels wrong to be listed only once under
only one of the artists, if you see what i mean?  (in home>albums)

JJZolx;644160 Wrote: 
> The artist string that is displayed _should_ be a concatenated list of
> all of the artist names (unless there is an album artist) and that's
> the bug that we're talking about - in 7.6 it's only showing one artist.
> Again, it appears that they used to be listed in the order that they
> were read from the tags.

right, i think i'm following all that...

JJZolx;644160 Wrote: 
> I don't think this is an unusual tagging situation at all. I happen to
> use ALBUMARTIST for these albums, but I know not everyone does. When
> you add ALBUMARTISTs like 'George Adams & Don Pullen' or "Robert Plant
> and Alison Krauss' it places all of them in the artist list, which many
> people don't like.

right, i get that too.  i do think using separator characters or
multiple frames for artists is itself unusual, but certainly not
verbotten or unwise...  i guess though that i don't see why using an AA
tag for this situation is not the best solution?  the album is only
going to be listed once no matter what, and its really not a Mark or
Emmy album, but both of theirs, so it should be its own unique value.

and that wouldn't stop it from being found under each of them as
artists either, since they would be listed in their own artist frames.


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