AlbumArtist Issues - creates more Albums

[DavidHB]

(27-09-2014 18:08)Pastim Wrote:  I agree with all of that, except I put 'Various' in AlbumArtist instead of leaving it blank where there is no constant AlbumArtist. Some servers like this (and no doubt some don't).

To be honest, my practice is not entirely consistent, but I suspect that it is probably sensible to use a place holder as you do, rather than leave a blank.

(27-09-2014 18:08)Pastim Wrote:  However, what do you do if 2 Artists are constant across the whole album, with a few others chipping in on some tracks? MinimServer does not like having 2 such AlbumArtists.

What MinimServer does not like (understandably in my view) is having multiple AlbumArtist tags, but it is happy to deal with multiple Artist tags. So an AlbumArtist tag of 'Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti' will work, as will separate Artist tags of 'Chicago Symphony Orchestra' and 'Georg Solti'. And you can similarly populate the separate Orchestra and Conductor tags as well.

This approach has not broken anything in my system, but I cannot of course say how well it would work for other people.

David