id3v2 TPE2 aka. AlbumArtist support

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Stefan Bogner <bochi at online.ms> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently, Amarok seems to support the TPE2 frame nicely with files that are in
> the collection, but if you add the file from the filebrowser, it will set
> "Artist" to TPE2.
>
> I am using that tag a lot - imho it is a great solution for compilations, ie.
> set AlbumArtist to "VA" for all tracks on a compilation, and set "Artist" for
> each track individually. The Album will then show up as one Album with Artist
> "VA", but if you play a track it shows the tracks's artist. This works fine
> with all players I tried with my collection. Maybe this could be considered as
> an option to the current solution for compilations.
>
> I am not sure whether or not the attached patch works (maybe I am missing
> something) - but setting the Artist to the value of TPE2 can't be right.

Well it doesn't make much sense to add a member value and only write
to it and never read it, like you do in the patch.

But yea your right, assigning TPE2 to artist doesn't make sense.

Ian