AlbumArtist Issues - creates more Albums

[DavidHB]

(27-09-2014 20:12)Pastim Wrote:  I completely fail to understand why multiple AlbumArtist tags are not supported by MinimServer.

If you regard the AlbumArtist tag as part of what does or could define the grouping of tracks that forms a logical album, it makes sense to have a single tag. Simon is the authority on any technical difficulties that might arise if multiple values are allowed.

(27-09-2014 20:12)Pastim Wrote:  I also fail to understand why someone would ever combine two names into one tag value. This illustrates how we all think differently

Indeed. Over the year or so that I have been ripping and tagging my music collection, I have given a lot of thought to the way I record artist information. I find that, as often as not, I am interested in the performers in combination rather than separately; for example, I might want to listen to Georg Solti's recording of Mahler's 1st Symphony with the LSO, and not the one with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Because I can use UPnP search to find, say, all instances of 'Solti' in the collection, I do not lose anything by including several names in the Artist or AlbumArtist tags.

It's not that I say that what I do is the only way of doing things, or even that it is 'right'. All I say is that it works for me. I hope that that at least is an understandable statement.

David