AlbumArtist Issues - creates more Albums

[simoncn]

(27-09-2014 11:41)Pastim Wrote:  In the case of a lieder recital, the two Artists are both AlbumArtists, and Artists, so I tag them as both. I appreciate that others think differently, but it's logical to me. AlbumArtist is one thing - the main artist appearing on every track, and therefore worthy of being looked up as such in a search on AlbumArtist. Every track has a list of Artists (some use Performer but I don't), so they appear there as well. If I try to rely on the logic of a server to merge AlbumArtist and Artist, different servers behave differently, so I tag everything to my needs.

I'm happy to accept that I'm daft, but have got used to being so over the years

If I understand this correctly, if you choose to use an AlbumArtist tag or tags for any track in an album, these tag(s) would appear on every track of the album, presumably in the same order. Because an identical list of AlbumArtist tags appears on every track in the album, converting this list of tags to a "match key" string would correctly match all tracks of the album.

MinimServer could adopt such a scheme and this would work for your library. The problem I envisage is that many libraries would have some tracks in an album where one of the album artists isn't tagged (perhaps because he/she isn't playing on that track) and this would cause unexpected match failures.