Multidisc albums with more than one artist

[DavidHB]

(20-10-2013 21:39)simoncn Wrote:  ... I don't think it would be a good idea to add more complexity unless there is some use case that can't be handled with the current implementation. This is why I asked for an example of an album that needs to be tagged with multiple artists and multiple album artists.

A multiple artist compilation can have a 'dominant' artist, in which case that artist should be tagged as the Album Artist for the whole album (and other artist details entered as appropriate in the artist tags of their respective tracks). If there is no such 'dominant' Artist, then Album Artist needs to be tagged with a place holder such as '<Various Artists>', to preserve the integrity of the album as described by Simon. I cannot see that, in practice, there can be any other case (but I am willing to be enlightened ).

I accept that there is an issue when Control Points display Album Artist data when they should be displaying Artist data for particular tracks. But that is not really a MinimServer problem. There is a limit to the amount of mis-tagging (or changes to MinimServer settings) that can sensibly be used to work around Control Point limitations, as anyone who shares my frustration that the Composer is so often identified by default as the 'Album Artist' on classical music tracks will agree.

David