Give me your tired, your hungry, your Various Artists

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Jeff Mitchell at 20/03/10 16:03 did gyre and gimble:
> On 03/20/2010 10:58 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> The collection scanner does read them in but as I mentioned this is not
>> actual read into the database.
>>
>> The patch I linked fixes that and with it applied the album artist tags
>> do get into the database :)
> 
> This brings up a deeper problem, which is: if you have both album and
> album artist tags, which do you display when viewing artists in the
> collection browser?
> 
> The answer isn't obvious and depends strongly on personal preference.

I guess the display preference would be solved by the approach outlined
at the end of my mail, tho' simple it is not :p

Col

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