>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 ?
>
Some software does, but none of the software for ripping or correcting tags
that I use does. 50-50.
>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
>
I recommend removing ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists, and ensuring COMPILATION=1.
That way you don't get Various Artists appearing against a now playing song,
and music library browsing in general works better (certainly in SBS, if you
click on a track artist link it would only show albums where that artist was a
track artist, and not all music by that artist. LMS is better).
>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.
Exactly.
But also, there is an music library option for a BAND tag to be used for
denoting instead of ARTIST(s). [BAND meaning really band, and not ALBUM
ARTIST].
So you can have:
Album=No Pussyfooting
Track Number=1
Song Title=The Heavenly Music Corporation Part 1
Artist=Robert Fripp
Artist=Brian Eno
Band=Fripp & Eno
If you have selected "List albums by all artists for that album" you would see:
"The Heavenly Music Corporation Part 1" by Robert Fripp, Brian Eno
If you have selected "List albums by band" you would see:
"The Heavenly Music Corporation Part 1" by Fripp & Eno
Band could be used for better presentation of other cases, eg. Artist=Buddy
Holly, Band=Buddy Holly and the Crickets.
This worked on classic players and Web UI, but I don't think Touch UI supports
it :-(
>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.
>
I think it shouldn't guess/assume/display an artist (or band) if there isn't
one tagged on the song. There could be tracks on an album where there isn't an
artist, eg. intermission/crowd cheering between songs on a live album.
>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.
It's not really a discussion about compilations and Various Artists. This is
only about how Album Artists are used when reporting details about a song.
>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.
>
Yes, unless a software patch was provided to fix SBS/LMS.
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