mherger wrote: 
> >>> I disagree. In LMS, an album is either:
> >>>
> >>> a) detected as a compilation, has no AA tagging, so the album
> artist
> >> is
> >>> the VA
> >>> b) detected as a compilation, has AA tagging, so the album artist
> is
> >> as
> >>> given in the AA tagging
> >>> c) not a compilation and has AA tagging, so the album artist is as
> >> given
> >>> in the AA tagging
> >>> d) none of the above
> >>
> >> Quick Q.: is this your understanding of how LMS _does_ work, or how
> it
> >> _should_ work?
> >
> > How it does work. Erland is correct: in a), the VA isn't actually
> > assigned an album artist role in the db.
> 
> Hehe... ok, we agree there, if that detail doesn't make a difference
> :-).
> 
> But as I said a.) is only true if that preference is set (which is on by
> 
> default, thus most likely set in close to 100% of all setups). Without 
> that preference set you'd end up with several single track albums of the
> 
> same name by different artists.

No, it doesn't work like that. With my library, this setting affects the
artists appearing in the artist list, and has nothing to do with the
album list. I still have exactly the same number of albums and they
still appear under Various Artists alphabetically when browsing by album
and sorted by artist name.

The effect on the artist list is that the VA artist disappears and the
track artists are all shown in the artist list. (Track artists only from
compilations, that is. Track artists on non-compilations never appear in
the artist list.) Drilling into the track artists shows each album on
which they appear, but the album artist shown for each of those albums
is exactly as before: Various Artists.


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