AlbumArtist or Artist?

[Myriam Schweingruber]

FWIW: I already answered that in the forum:
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=116&t=125640

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Сергей <protserovsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello! As I can see, Amarok sorts music by "AlbumArtist" tag in
> collection browser (left side) and displays "Artist" tag in playlist
> (right side). So, for example, if I have got some tracks with one
> "AlbumArtist" tag and different "Artist" tags, they will be displayed
> in the playlist like this: (attachment). However, all other players
> (Banshee, Rhythmbox, Exaile, Clementine, PowerAmp for android) do the
> opposite: they sort the collection by "Artist" tag, while
> "AlbumArtist" tag is secondary. So, when I use my collection in
> different players, there is discrepancy sometimes: for example, if I
> have a compilation of tracks by different artists inside my
> collection, I set "AlbumArtist" as "Other tracks" and Artist is
> individual for each track. So, in my collection they stay separately
> from all other tracks ("Rammstein, Nightwish, Other tracks"), and
> their true Artist is displayed in the playlist.
> However, if I copy my collection to my Android device with Poweramp,
> this compilation fall splits into many categories, because of
> different "Artist" tag, as Poweramp uses this tag as primary.
> If I make Amarok display sort my collection by "Artist" and set
> "AlbumArtist" individially for each track in compilation, I get the
> following picture: (second attachment). That's ugly. Could you please
> recommend me what to do in this case? And, probably it would be
> reasonable to change Amarok's policy into using "Artist" as primary,
> "AlbumArtist" as secondary?
> Thank you.
>
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