garym;681878 Wrote: 
> 2. album vs album artist. Oh my. you can  read 100s of pages of threads
> about this topic.  Short answer, is that for most pop music you don't
> need album artist as it is the same as artist. 
Agreed. If you are only using SBs, then in most cases you can just use
ARTIST. Some other music software makes greater use of ALBUMARTIST.

The two cases where I find ALBUMARTIST most useful are (1) albums where
an ARTIST has a lot of guest artists (e.g., Ray Charles' "Genius Loves
Company" album of duets), and (2) tribute albums (e.g., "Going
Driftless", a tribute to Greg Brown). In those cases I would fill the
ARTIST tag for each track with the artist(s) who actually perform on
that track, and the ALBUMARTIST tag with Ray Charles and Greg Brown,
respectively.

And I don't want to overload you, but in the interests of getting
things right, note that FLAC tagging easily accommodates multiple
entries for the same tag. So for "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" on the Ray
Charles album I have:

ARTIST=Ray Charles
ARTIST=Bonnie Raitt
ALBUMARTIST=Ray Charles


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