Multidisc albums with more than one artist

[zebra]

(20-10-2013 21:39)simoncn Wrote:  

(20-10-2013 18:08)zebra Wrote:  What speaks against checking whether all files with a common album name and different discmumber tags have the same album artists in the same order? Alternatively Minim could offer a configuration option for specifying the fields that should be considered for merging.

Supporting multiple album artists for an album or changing the way merging works would be a major design and implementation change. The code in this area is very complex already, and 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.

This album (http://www.lalalandrecords.com/WyattEarp.html) is shown twice (disc 1+2 and disc 3) because on disc 3 there are some cues by another composer. The album artist is the same for all files but because of the "workaround" the album artist in not visible.

The "workaround" is necessary because other albums in my collection have multiple album artists (e.g. "The Dark Knight" soundtrack with album artists "Hans Zimmer" and "James Newton Howard"). Without this workaround these albums would not be shown when browsing by album artist.