JJZolx;379892 Wrote: 
> The contributor column is used only for *sorting* albums by artist name.
> It's not used for display.  I don't recall the history exactly - I
> think it may have been added during some struggles with implementing
> the alphapagebar.  Since you can only sort by a single artist name, it
> doesn't matter how many album artists there are - the album would
> likely be sorted at "bri..." (assuming no ARTISTSORT tags alter how
> contributors Brian Eno or Robert Fripp are sorted).
> 
> For display, SC goes back to the 'use ALBUMARTIST' else 'find every
> artist on every track in the album' behavior.  I've never added
> multiple ALBUMARTIST tags myself, but I assume all of the names would
> be displayed.

It appears, album would be sorted by first ALBUMARTIST that appears on
the first track, in this case by 'Rob...'. In situation where various
tracks have different albumartists (let's not again get into discussion
why I'd do that :) ) all of them would appear in 'by' clause.


K


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