Two tagging questions for classical music

[magister]

I'm trying to tighten up my tagging system.

1. I've read the user guide about how MinimServer handles the Artist and Albumartist tags. I've also searched the net for other info about how people deal with the Artist and Albumartist tags; there seems to be a lot of variation. It seems that:

a. the best practice is to put an artist that appears in all the tracks -- the "main" artist on the album, so to speak -- in Albumartist. (This might be an ensemble, such as the Philadelphia Orchestra. I use a separate tag for conductor.)

b. one puts additional artists in the Artist field. These might be artists who only appear on one or two tracks, guest artists not normally a part of the ensemble, etc.

c. For MinimServer, one must include the "main" artist in the Artist field as well as in Albumartist; otherwise the main artist won't appear in MS's All Artists tag list since that excludes Albumartist.

Example: an album of works by Brahms includes two orchestral pieces and the Alto Rhapsody. For all tracks, Albumartist = Netherlands Philharmonic. For the Alto Rhapsody, Artist = name of the singer and Netherlands Philharmonic. For the other, orchestral-only tracks, Artist = Netherlands Philharmonic.

Is this right?

2. For MinimServer, the best practice to include both a Group and a Composition tag to deal with multi-movement works such as symphonies. I've been using a Composition tag but will add the Group if needed. (So far I don't have any albums where the movements of a composition are split up.)

Thanks - David