Philip Meyer;290242 Wrote: 
> >My own view is that if the ALBUMARTIST tag exists for every track on
> an
> >album, it would be nice *not* to classify it as "Various Artists"
> >whether or not COMPILATION is set. Currently, if you have
> COMPILATION=1
> >and "Group Compilation Albums together", it's almost as though
> >ALBUMARTIST is ignored: the album just ends up under Various Artists.
> >
> I think ALBUMARTIST should prevent the album from being tagged as a
> compilation (compilation albums effectively sets ALBUMARTIST to
> "Various Artists").
> 
> I thought this was fixed (bug 3815 maybe?).
> 
> I haven't noticed any problems like that in my library, but I may have
> set COMPILATION=0 to be sure, because there was a problem with this in
> the past.
> 
> PhilThe reason setting COMPILATION=0 doesn't work for me is that for albums
like my Larry Levan example (he's the ALBUMRARTIST) I want Larry to
appear in the artist list (despite not having any other Larry albums)
but I *do not* want all the other track artists to appear in the artist
list. The only way I know of to exclude artists is to set the "Group
Compilation Artists together" and set COMPILATION=1. At the moment I
seem to have only two options:

1. (COMPILATION=1) Larry isn't in the artist list, neither are any of
the track artists
2. (COMPILATION=0) Larry *is* in the artist list, but so are all of the
track artists

what I want is
3. Larry is in the artist list, the track artists are not.

I'm not at all precious about what is or is not a "compilation", I just
want to achieve #3. Note that were there just one other album by Larry
Levan, I would actually get the desired #3 by setting COMPILATION=1.
Maybe all of this would be solved by addressing
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5108


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