Two Artist Albums

[simbun]

(04-01-2022 20:58)simoncn Wrote:  

(04-01-2022 10:37)simbun Wrote:  @simoncn In the documentation the following example is given:
Artist.value.sort={ArtistSort}, AlbumArtist.value.sort={ArtistSort}

This is intentional. The section containing this is about Artist index sorting. The Artist index can contain a mixture of Artist tags and AlbumArtist tags.

A short while after I'd posted, I did go and check that section and realised at that point that it was intentional, but at the time I just couldn't get my head around why.

(04-01-2022 20:58)simoncn Wrote:  To ensure the Artist index is consistent when an artist is tagged as both Artist and AlbumArtist, the Artist and AlbumArtist tags for this artist need to have the same sort value.

Wouldn't that be the norm though? Is there a reason why you'd have a different sort order for an artist depending on whether he's the album artist or artist? Apologies if I'm missing something here, and I'm half expecting the reply to start with 'With classical music...'.

I suppose at the very least it depends on how you tag your files, as for me (I always populate Album Artist and AlbumArtistSort tags) that setup is wrong, and it'll return an incorrect sort order and notes in the log. Having said that, I assume that if the first track your code encounters for an Album Artist has that artist as the main artist (the first Artist) then the sort value will be appropriate, otherwise it will be wrong, with 'Various Artists' always being wrong.

I guess I was just surprised that there was no mention of AlbumArtistSort. I also realise that if you tried to document every option and implication of how every feature was used you'd probably still be writing it, and no one would read it :-)