Behavior of Artist tag

[simoncn]

(09-05-2012 15:18)rb73 Wrote:  I added some usertags to my classical music collection this weekend, intending to take advantage of MinimServer's flexible browsing approach. However, instead of making things easier to find, they're now more difficult to find

In the old situation I only used the Artist tag. It holds the main performer, e.g. "Janine Jansen".

In the new situation I didn't change the Artist tag, but I added "Orchestra" and "Conductor" tags.

So, a work (Album/Composition) that was previously tagged as

Artist: Janine Jansen
Album: Violin concerto Op.64
Composition: Violin concerto Op.64
Composer: Mendelssohn

now received additional tags:

Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly

For some reason when browsing the Artists, Janine Jansen is nowhere to be found. I do have an entry "Riccardo Chailly, Janine Jansen, Gewandhausorchester"

This means that if I decide to listen to something played by Janine Jansen, I have to search through the entire Artists list to find her.

Why do Orchestras and Conductors get mixed into the Artist field when browsing? And which takes precedence?

Or rather, is there a setting that I've missed to avoid this from happening?
Or should I add another usertag "Performer" & copy what I now have in "Artist" into "Performer", and ignore the "Artist" tag when browsing?

Cheers,
JW

To see all the artists listed separately, you need to add "All Artists" to the userTags list. In 0.31, this is included by default.

The Artist index shows a summary of artist-related information:
1) If there's an AlbumArtist tag, this will be shown
2) Alternatively, if there's a single Artist tag (and no Conductor/Orchestra tags), the single Artist value will be shown
3) Alternatively, if there are multiple Artist tags (and/or Conductor/Orchestra tags), a combination of these values will be shown, in the following order: Conductor, Artist..., Orchestra.

The above scheme was the result of quite a bit of debate on this subject. I'm open to suggestions for (further) improvement.