Use of AlbumArtist

[simoncn]

(19-01-2016 11:52)PSH Wrote:  I am not sure I fully understand.
All my tracks are tagged with Artist and AlbumArtist. Sometimes these contain the same information and as already observed there is useful intelligence that only displays one instance of the information even though the $album$artist$albumartist is requested.
In the case where the Artist and Album Artist information is different, the text suggests that the AlbumArtist information "overwrites/replaces" the Artist information and one might expect duplication or for the above intelligence to be applied. This is not the case as one gets the three bits of information so I'm happy but confused!

The text you are referring to is describing how the menu entries in the Artist index are constructed when both Artist and AlbumArtist information are present. The Artist index is the list of artists that is shown when you select Artist from the top-level menu.