bug 8001 has fixed this issue.
the confusion above was caused by several factors, notably the fact
that at that time, TPE2 wasn't treated like ALBUMARTIST by SC.
also, while there is no doubt that the universal defacto standard for
tagging is that TPE1 = track artist[s], while TPE2 = cd artist,
let me start by saying i apologize for conflating so many issues into
one thread. while they all are related, i think i have made it hard to
address my own questions, so i'll try to fix that with this post.
also, please understand here my intention is absolutely NOT to be
argumentative, but
i was unclear, mainly because i didn't know you could have 'artist' as a
field in the tag listed twice, as you do.
in my example all through this thread, my fields were like this:
SS sorting it in the WRONG place:
ALBUM=BJ Box Set CD3
ARTIST=Billy Joel/Ray Charles
ALBUMARTIST=Billy Joel
SS
MrSinatra;232124 Wrote:
in fishbone, when i browse in gallery view, i do artist, year, album.
can someone please verify that the way SS works when it organizes music
from a scan, is that it arranges the albums via the artist tag, but
when it displays the artist name in gallery view, it
MrSinatra;232416 Wrote:
i always figured the opposite: artist should be for that tracks actual
artist[s], and albumartist would be for the overall CDs artist.
but it seems the reverse is the right way, according to the standard.
would you all agree?
I wouldn't agree and that is not how
MrSinatra;232124 Wrote:
can someone please verify that the way SS works when it organizes music
from a scan, is that it arranges the albums via the artist tag, but
when it displays the artist name in gallery view, it uses the
albumartist or band tag first if available?
It appears to use
