Bugzilla – Bug 3447
Artist displayed should be the AlbumArtist when present on non-compilations
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
Here's a typical album comprised of a couple of well-known individual artists going by a group name. It's not a compilation album. ALBUM=St. Elsewhere ALBUMARTIST=Gnarls Barkley ARTIST=Cee-Lo Green ARTIST=Danger Mouse In the browse modes, ALBUMARTIST is shown for the album, but when you get to an album's track listing, you see the list of individual artists. You also get this list of individual artists in the player display. Does anyone really want to see the entire artist lineup when there's a group name? If the album is not a VA album, then the ALBUMARTIST should be displayed in both places. For VA albums, continue to display the track artist(s) list.
Yes, people actually do want to see each individual artist, even when there is an album artist name.
So you tag an album: ALBUMARTIST: The Beatles ARTIST: John Lennon ARTIST: George Harrison ARTIST: Paul McCartney ARTIST: Ringo Starr You'd want that displayed with all the artist names streamed enlessly across your display? Why? Do you need another pref?
Because not everyone tags the same... you are the first I've seen to tag this way. Personally, I would just have ARTIST: The Beatles
This has been implemented as a side-effect of change 8140. It's almost the same bug as 2317 & 2638