Re: [Easytag-mailing] Album Artist

[Götz Waschk <goetz waschk gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Oliver <oliver joos freenet ch> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2012, 13:11 +0000 schrieb Arnd:
>> I don't use "Album Artist", and don't want the empty field sitting
>> prominently below "Artist". So I moved it down between "Composer" and
>> "Orig. Artist", and to the right in the browser columns.
>>
>> I leave the link to the patch here just in case someone else might find it
>> useful:  [ http://txtup.net/OzXa6 ].
> I haven't seen yet an mp3 device or software player that displays or
> interprets "Album Artist" somehow. So I think moving it away from the
> important (kind of mandatory) fields like "Title" and "Artist" near to
> nice-to-have fields like "Composer" is an obvious improvement. An
> alternative (but worse) would be to add an option to hide it.
Oh no, please don't apply the patch. The "Album Artist" field is
essential for "Various Artists" releases or for split albums. It is
interpreted by my iPod and also by banshee.

Regards, Götz

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