Conflicting album artist values

[simoncn]

(23-06-2012 20:04)bbrip Wrote:  Seriously: Why not provide that tag with a "new" live. There is no logical reason whatsoever why not more than one entry should be allowed here.

It's possible, but I think it would introduce further confusion about the difference between Artist and AlbumArtist and how these tags should be treated by the server. For example, MinimServer currently uses the ALBUMARTIST tag (if present) to decide whether multiple discs that have the same title should be merged into a multi-disc album set. This wouldn't work if multiple ALBUMARTIST values were allowed and different discs had different combinations of ALBUMARTIST values.

If you want to credit multiple artists for an album, it's easy to do that by tagging it as
ALBUMARTIST=artist1, artist2

Quote:Option 2 sounds definitely like the more logical one to me. Solves all the "exception" coding issues: Everything that follows after the comma is the 'First Name'.
so: "Karajan, Herbert von" will show as "Herbert von Karajan" in the control point. Sounds great to me!

The difficulty with this is the need for the user to redo all the ARTIST tags after ripping or downloading.

Perhaps the right answer is for the server to provide a choice of transformation/sorting rules, so people could tag in either style and choose the transformation/sorting rule that matches their tagging style.

A further refinement could be for the server to allow a mixture of these styles in the same collection, and look for the presence of a comma to decide which style is being used.