09-14-2022, 02:07 PM
I downloaded the test albums and had a quick look. At first glance the tagging looks reasonable but it's Classical and so anything goes.
MusicBrainz https://musicbrainz.org/recording/295695...3624281a50 has the following:
I understand the OP issue to be the presence of the Album Artist in the artists list in Tag view when the Preference setting for "Tag view artist" is set to "Artist". The help text for that setting should probably be "Artist: List all Artists, Album Artists, Performers and Conductors" instead of the current text which erroneously omits "Album Artist.
Looking back, the Library was completely rewritten starting with 6.0.0 2019 release and underwent a lot of improvements up through 7.0.0 2020 release. After that is was mostly tweaks and bug fixes. The consensus among the devs and testers during development of the new Library was that Composers, Conductors, Album Artists and Artists are all to be considered "artists". A couple of the devs and testers had extensive Classical collections.
In the 7.0.0 releases note we have items below. Note the 3rd one down.
I suppose there could be a discussion around having an option something like "Artist (strict") where only the Artist tag was used to populate the list but I don't think this would be widely applicable plus it breaks compilation albums and thus prolly not a good thing to do.
MusicBrainz https://musicbrainz.org/recording/295695...3624281a50 has the following:
Code:
Track artist: Steve Reich
Release artist: John Adams, Steve Reich; San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony
Conductor: Edo de Waart
Composer: Steve ReichI understand the OP issue to be the presence of the Album Artist in the artists list in Tag view when the Preference setting for "Tag view artist" is set to "Artist". The help text for that setting should probably be "Artist: List all Artists, Album Artists, Performers and Conductors" instead of the current text which erroneously omits "Album Artist.
Looking back, the Library was completely rewritten starting with 6.0.0 2019 release and underwent a lot of improvements up through 7.0.0 2020 release. After that is was mostly tweaks and bug fixes. The consensus among the devs and testers during development of the new Library was that Composers, Conductors, Album Artists and Artists are all to be considered "artists". A couple of the devs and testers had extensive Classical collections.
In the 7.0.0 releases note we have items below. Note the 3rd one down.
Code:
- NEW: Library performance improvements
- NEW: Library advanced filtering engine
- NEW: Library Artist list includes Performers, Conductors, Album Artists
- NEW: Library option for the key used to differentiate albums
- NEW: Library option to include the comment tag
- NEW: Library support for multiple occurrences of certain tagsI suppose there could be a discussion around having an option something like "Artist (strict") where only the Artist tag was used to populate the list but I don't think this would be widely applicable plus it breaks compilation albums and thus prolly not a good thing to do.
