Re: [Easytag-mailing] Album Artist

[Oliver <oliver joos freenet ch>]

Am Montag, den 18.06.2012, 16:10 +0000 schrieb Arnd:
> Oliver <oliver joos freenet ch> [Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:13:04 +0200]
> 
> > @Götz: I think the patch will only move the GUI textfield "Album Artist"
> > visually to a more adequate position, near other more optional fields
> > (fields that are only known by some but not all players).
> 
> That's correct. Personally I'm not pushing this patch to be in trunk, you 
> can just apply it before compilation and be happy with the new position. 
> It's not something you have to do every day. ;-)
> 
> BTW, "Composer" is very useful for organizing classical albums. On the 
> other hand, who uses "Copyright", "URL" or "Encoded by"? One of these 
> should have beed re-assigned as "Album Artist" IMO.

Sometimes I use Composer on audiobook tracks, and "Encoded by" to
remember which tracks could be worth re-ripping if I find a new ripping
tool. I never saw useful entries in "Copyright".

The reason why I like your patch is because when I first used the latest
Easytag I overlooked the new field, filled "Album Artist" and left
"Artist" empty. It took me quite a while to find out why my trusted
Nokia did not show the artist anymore.

> >> apple devices, iphone for instance, use album artist to display the
> >> artist of an album.
> >> 
> >> this sets a trend. some newer mp3 players also use album artist now.
> >> it's a shame i don't have the actual statistics.
> 
> All desktop applications I ever used, the SqueezeCenter I use for 
> streaming, phones, the iDrive system in my parent's BMW, my navigation 
> device - none of them need "Album Artist" to correctly register Various 
> Artists albums or albums with multiple CDs. It is also logically clear: if 
> several files in the same directory have the same "Album", but different 
> "Artist" fields, it must by a VA compilation.

That's about the strategy XBMC uses for tracks without "Album Artist": 
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adding_music_to_the_library#Artist_Tags_-_Resolving_Compilations_and_Multiple_Artists

> I guess this field was invented to have different artists while at the 
> same time force one artist as owner of that album. I don't need that (I 
> move additional per track artist info to the "Title" field), and the empty 
> "Album Artist" field was very annoying.
> 
> In the end, the cool thing is that it's open source and we can adapt it to 
> personal preferences.
> 
> Here's an idea: implement the patch as an option to the configure script. 
> The patch would be simply part of the source tree, and something like "./
> configure --move-aa-down" would apply the patch before compilation.

Fine for you and me, but as I wrote Götz, for id3/Easytag novices it
would be Easy-ier if "Album Artist" is not next to the well-known
must-have fields "Artist" and "Album".

+++ Oliver

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