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OK, I have now reorganized my tags and everything is working fine. I'm sure you had good reasons for connecting the "Artist" field closer to the "AlbumArtist" field in the artists column. Still, from a users point of view this makes things more complicated than before. It was very elegant to simply have all artists appear in this column. At a glance you could see which artists you have in your database, regardless if they feature with a whole album or only one song in a collection. Now you may have artists, that never even show up, because they are hidden behind the general label "Various Artists". Of course, the solution you offer to find them works fine! But compared to simply clicking the respective artist, it is rather cumbersome to use the Advanced Search in a different view. Also, to use this, you need to know exactly which artist you are looking for. No more browsing through the artist list and being pleasantly surprised, that you have some tracks by B.B. King on your disk, hidden in a deluxe edition of the Rolling Stones' "Get yer Ya-Yas out". I liked the old artist column being primarily about the artists, not about albums that either have one or various artists.
One more thing: When re-tagging my files I noticed, that if the file "Performer" exists, that the artists are sorted by it. So "AlbumArtist" and "Performer" both override the "Artist" with regard to sorting. That does not make sense to me. Performers and artists can differ: There can be an album with various performers performing the works of only one artist or one performer presenting the work of various artists.
In an ideal world, there would the possibility to switch between an "Artist", "AlbumArtist", or "Performer"-view on the fly. But I guess that would be very hard to program and result in a system less stable.
Sorry about the nagging, actually I'm very happy with moode! Keep up the good work!
