>however, (it is my understanding), that if you set the BAND tag, that >you can denote that album as by that tag, but you can NOT sort the >album by that tag. > I don't think that ModelCitizen has a problem with grouping or sorting.
He just wants to identify additional performing artists on the songs. Setting a Band/Orchestra will allow the album to be browsed under either the lead (main performing) artist, or under the band. Browsing the album or songs on the album would display as being "by artist" (or "by band" if list by band is ticked in the preferences). i.e. if songs on an album are tagged with ARTIST=x, BAND=y, then he could navigate to the album via "Browse Artists > x > album name" and "Browse Artists > y > album name". There's no need for ALBUMARTIST at all, if all artists on each song on the album are exactly the same. The artists in the browse artist list will be correctly sorted by ARTISTSORT. With "Browse Album" mode, each album appears only once - at least when sorted by album name (the default for browsing albums) you would expect to see each album once. When Browse Albums is sorted by "Artist", I would expect that the album should only appear in the list once still, so I would expect to see the album sorted under the main performing artist (eg. x), and not by the band contributor role. If there were different artists on the album, and a proper ALBUMARTIST tag was set, then the album would be listed under that album artist, instead of as a compilation album. This should work properly too when using Browse Albums sorted by artist (will sort by album artist if there is one for the album). _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
