The way I use ALBUMARTIST and the way I believe it was intended is as a
means of designating the artist(s) to which the album should be
attributed.  As an _override_ mechanism to the normal/original behavior
of attributing the album to all of the artists that appear on the
album.

I don't think I've used multiple ALBUMARTIST tags to date, but I could
certainly see it and see that it would be perfectly valid.  Using
different sets of ALBUMARTISTs on different tracks of an album,
however, I still see as inconsistent and meaningless.

The album.contributor column is used for sorting albums by artist (and,
consequently, organizing the alpha pagebar).  Its use in SquezeCenter is
one of the reasons that sorting albums by band or composer isn't
possible.  There is only _one_ contributor by which albums can be
sorted under the current implementation.


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JJZolx

Jim
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