Philip Meyer;644169 Wrote:
> >I'm not sure I'll be able to fix this: what is shown there is what is
> considered the album artist. Now in some of the examples we've seen
> over the past few days there's no album artist defined, but multiple
> artists instead ("Marc Knopfler;Emmy Lou Harris"). As in SBS' world
> there can only be one album artist, the deliberate choice is taken to
> assume the first of them the album artist. That's a scanner/schema
> issue I'll have to check with Andy.
>
> This sounds wrong.
>
> In SBS world there can be multiple album artists for an album. As Jim
> said, only one of them is chosen for sorting & alphabar
> (albums.contributor column), but this is not ever used for display of
> the albums' artists, whcih should be sourced from the contributor_album
> link table.
>
> i.e. a lot of people tag all songs on an album with the same set of
> artist tags. eg. ARTIST=Jimmy Page;Robert Plant, and thus there are
> two album artists for the album. It is also possible to explicitly tag
> ALBUM ARTIST=Jimmy Page;Robert Plant.
>
> If there are different artists across tracks, then the album artist
> would usually be "Various Artists" (either set by the user, or
> automatically assigned by the scanner).
i forgot that, but its the same question...
if you have multiple AA tags, where does it sort in home>albums?
somehow, having multiple AA tags seems like a bad idea to me, but
figuring out where to sort Phil L's album is really the one ringing my
bell! (sorry jim, it intrigues me!)
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