JJZolx;698457 Wrote:
> 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
>
Doesn't this kind of make sense ?
ALBUMARTIST = The artist that is credited for the album release
ARTIST = The artists that performs on the actual track
Isn't it also pretty typical that standard ripping software put the
album artist also in the ARTIST tag unless the user manually removes
them ?
My own non compilation albums, doesn't have an ALBUMARTIST tags but
they do have a MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTIST tag which SBS/LMS treats as a
ALBUMARTIST
To me it feels like the ALBUMARTIST should be used when listing albums
while the ARTIST should be used when showing information about a
specific track. This would also solve my issue, since Now Playing
screen always shows information about current track and due to this
shouldn't display the ALBUMARTIST unless possibly if the the ARTIST tag
is completely missing on the file.
Of course, there is probably not much sense in discuss this any further
because it has been discussed over and over again so nobody is going to
dare changing anything at this time related to compilations or Various
Artists. I guess my option is to basically start removing musicbrainz
related tags which have been added automatically to my files when
running the musicbrainz Picard tagger.
I think the reason it hasn't annoyed me before might be that my smart
playlists haven't included compilation albums before so I've rarely
played anything on compilation albums and due to this I haven't really
noticed the issue until the last year since my smart playlists were
adjusted a bit when switching to SQLite.
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