Can Library be switched from sort by 'Album Artist' to sort by 'Artist' only?

[rongon]

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.
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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.
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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 tags

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.

Thank you for this information. Being better informed helps, very much.

At first glance the tagging looks reasonable but it's Classical and so anything goes.

Well, the system I cooked up works well for both jazz and compilation albums/tracks.

Artist = Miles Davis
AlbumArtist (how the artist name appears on the album cover) = Miles Davis +19
Album (album title) = Miles Ahead

as opposed to

Artist = Miles Davis
AlbumArtist (how the artist name appears on the album cover) = The New Miles Davis Quintet
Album (album title) = Miles

or

Artist = Miles Davis
AlbumArtist (how the artist name appears on the album cover) = Miles Davis
Album (album title) = Bitches Brew

and as for compilation albums,

Artist = Compilation (Latin)
AlbumArtist = Various Artists
Album (album title) = Son No Ha Muerto: Best of Cuban Son
each Track Title will have the performers listed parenthetically, e.g., 'Suavecito (Celia Cruz Con La Sonora Matancera)'

That worked fine for my needs. However, I understand that how I did the tagging was idiosyncratic, but you see, I did it that way to get Moode versions 3.x, 4x and 5x to display the Library > Tag view > Artists column how I wanted it to appear. The revamping of the Library in versions 6.x and 7.x broke my (yes, unusual) tagging scheme.

It looks like I will need to re-tag my entire music library. I believe there are over 1300 albums. Maybe more. I have something like that number of physical CDs, and I have bought some digital music files in the last 5 years or so. Perhaps I have more than 1500 albums.

OK, so I have a very important question.

Using Mp3tag:

• What is the correct set of tags for FLAC files?
  
• What is the correct set of tags for DSF files? (I have a few)
  
• What is the correct set of tags for MP3 files?
  

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