Multidisc albums with more than one artist

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(21-10-2013 21:49)simoncn Wrote:  Thanks for this information. I've looked at both these albums. For "Wyatt Earp", I couldn't easily find out which artists or album artists are different on disc 3 from discs 1 and 2. You mentioned another composer for disc 3, but the composer isn't the same as the album artist or artist.

All files have the album artist "James Newton Howard". All files from disc 1 and 2 and most files from disc 3 have the artist "James Newton Howard". On disc 3 there are also some files tagged with artist "Brad Dechter" (some source music used in the film, written by the orchestrator).

(21-10-2013 21:49)simoncn Wrote:  From the iTunes listing for The Dark Knight, it seems that Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard are the artists on all the tracks of this album. What is the problem with tagging these as artist names instead of album artist names?

All the files are tagged with "Hans Zimmer" and "James Newton Howard" as artist but also as album artist because usually I browse my music collection via the album artist (= film music composers). If I browse my collection by artist I would also have many other artist in the artist list (from songs, source music, music "inspired by" or whatever).