AlbumArtist Issues - creates more Albums

[DavidHB]

(27-09-2014 09:38)Pastim Wrote:  The reason I have multiple AlbumArtist tags on some albums is that for some, e.g. a lieder recital, the singer and pianist are of equal importance to me, and I want to find the album for one or the other.

Edit: this post crossed with Simon's (above). We seem to be of a mind.

Please forgive me if I am being dim, but I thought that the normal way of dealing with cases of this kind is to leave AlbumArtist blank (or use a placeholder such as <Various artists>), and have varying and/or multiple Artist tags. Compilation albums will require this approach in any case.

If the relevant data in a large collection is housed in the AlbumArtist tag, it is pretty quick and easy to use a tool such as MP3Tag's tag to tag copying feature to make the change. Browsing would then be by Artist rather than by AlbumArtist, and searches (at least if implemented as they are in Bubble DS/UPnP) would still find entries with the artist name.

Or have I completely misunderstood the issue?

David