Philip Meyer;698450 Wrote: 
> Another example could be soundtrack albums.  Some people add Album
> Artist=Soundtrack, so they can find them all listed in one place.

Instead of tagging them with GENRE=Soundtrack so that they can be found
all listed in one place? Genres > Soundtrack > All Albums. Wouldn't you
also see something like 'The Color Purple by Soundtrack' instead of
'The Color Purple by Quincy Jones'?

If you use tagging to manipulate the system into one behavior don't be
surprised when there are unexpected side effects that you have no way
of controlling.

> It's not correct to report the album artist when the reporting context
> is for song artists.  I'm playing a song, so I should only see the
> artists performing on the track, NOT the album artist.  And if I'm
> browsing the album, I should only see the album artist(s), not all
> track artists.

Agreed.

It would, however, force users to tag tracks with the album artist in
an artist field.

ALBUM=Duets
ALBUMARTIST=Frank Sinatra
ARTIST=Frank Sinatra
ARTIST=Aretha Franklin


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