Re: [Banshee-List] What is the album-artist issue?

["E.J.M. Hartman" <E J M Hartman tudelft nl>]

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 10:01 +0100, Jannik Heller wrote:
> I have this problem too. It's very annoying, not only for compilation
> albums, but sometimes there is a featured artist on an album. The only
> solution right now is to manually set the album artist.

As it's often difficult to determine WHAT you would choose as the "album
artist", the by-hand way is sometimes the only way:
Return Of The Grievous Angel
is a tribute album to Gram Parsons, by various artists, but I _do_ set
the album artist to Gram Parsons, so that it will be ordered close to
his Grievous Angel album (of which it is a tribute remake).

I also use the album-artist trick when 1 or two tracks on a album are
cooperations or even by a different artist, like the Eninem "Stan"
track on the BONUS version of Dido's No Angel album (it uses samples
from the Dido track "Thank You", on that same album).
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