(09-13-2022, 01:15 PM)Tim Curtis Wrote: It works ok on my end. I have albums where the Artist and AlbumArtist tags differ for example Lee Ritenour's 6 String Theory. The Album Artist is Lee Ritenour but each track has a different Artist. For this album all the individual artists are listed in Tag view artists column.
The first screen shot below shows the tracks in Tag view. The artist for the track "Am I Wrong" is "Keb'Mo & Taj Mahal" and this artist is listed in the artists column. The second screen shot shows the tags for that track.
Ah, it looks like what you see as working is the opposite of what I want to see.
In that example, I'd want to see 'Lee Ritenour' as the 'Artist' (in Library > Tag view > Artist) for the album '6 String Theory', like it says on the album cover.
The alternative would be to put the 'Artist' as 'Various Artists', and put the name(s) of the artists of each track in the track's title, e.g., 'Am I Wrong - Keb Mo' & Taj Mahal' for Track 2 of the album '6 String Theory'.
In my Library > Tags view, I would not want two entries for Kurt Rosenwinkel, one 'Kurt Rosenwinkel' and the other 'Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio'. I would have all albums with Kurt Rosenwinkel as the leader (whether as a solo artist, Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio, Kurt Rosenwinkel Group, or whatever) listed under Artist = 'Kurt Rosenwinkel'.
(Incidentally, Kurt is one of my favorite guitarists and composers! He's great, isn't he? I first heard him way back in the 1990s, playing small clubs in NYC like Small's.)
Think of how many groups Miles Davis led. The Miles Davis All Stars, the New Miles Davis Quintet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Miles Davis Sextet, Miles Davis +19 (Gil Evans, arranger) and Miles Davis as a solo artist/leader. To keep my list of Artists from getting out of control, I retag them all as Artist = 'Miles Davis', and specify the official group's name in the Album title, e.g., 'Miles Ahead - Miles Davis +19 (Gil Evans, arr.)' or 'Workin' - Miles Davis Quintet'.
When I sort by Artists in the Library > Tag view, I don't want an 'Artist' with only a single track in my collection, taking up room in my already very long list of Artists. I can use 'Various Artists' to seek out unusual pairings of musicians, or compilations and anthologies.
Quote:Feel free to zip up a couple of albums and PM a download link to myself and @TheOldPresbyope and we'll see if we can repro the issue you are having.
PM sent. Thanks.
