Conflicting album artist values

[simoncn]

(22-06-2012 17:33)bbrip Wrote:  Hi Simon
I am not sure wether your way of doing it is a defined "rule" but I m following a different approach. I use the ARTIST tag mainly as a 'display' field into which I type the artist-info exactly as I want to see it on the display of the Control point. Example:

"Anne Sofie Mutter, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan"

I then use ALBUMARTIST to tag the artist(s) using a last name, first name approach which makes it easier to find them back in the library (important if you got 7150 albums...) For the above:

Mutter, Anne Sofie
Berliner Philharmoniker
Karajan, Herbert von

May not be to the rulebook but meets my requirements best.

If I'd use the ARTIST tag, my control point displaying the artist info would look quite dodgy, probably like this:

"Berliner Philharmoniker, Mutter, Anne Sofie, Karajan, Herbert von"

not what I want to see ....

bbrip

I'm curious to know which music server you're currently using that supports this way of using the ALBUMARTIST tag. I've been under the impression that the limitation of one ALBUMARTIST value per album is standard practice for music servers.

I can suggest two options for MinimServer:

1) Continue with your current scheme, but use another tag instead of ALBUMARTIST for the "last name, first name" tags.

2) Use separate ARTIST tags for the artist names (in "firstname lastname" order), and use the ORCHESTRA tag for the orchestra name. This will almost[*] display what you want on the control point, but it won't give you the ability to sort artists by last name. In a future release of MinimServer, I'm planning to add a "sort by last name" capability, which would display the artists in the index as "firstname lastname" but would sort them as "lastname, firstname".

[*] MinimServer currently displays Conductor/Artist/Orchestra, and I noticed that you prefer Artist/Orchestra/Conductor. It wouldn't be very difficult for me to make the order of these configurable.

Option 1) seems a much smaller change from what you have currently, and you can use it now without needing to wait for a future release. It should be fairly simple to use Mp3tag to automate the change from ALBUMARTIST to a different tag name.