Support "album artist" and "artist sort" in TagLib::Tag interface?

[Jason Voegele]

Hi all,

I wanted to throw out the suggestion of adding support for "album artist" and 
"artist sort" to the TagLib::Tag interface.  Specifically, I'd like to discuss 
adding the following member functions:

    virtual String albumArtist() const = 0;
    virtual void setAlbumArtist(const String &s) = 0;

    virtual String artistSort() const = 0;
    virtual void setArtistSort(const String &s) = 0;

This would imply adding implementations of these functions to all of the 
derived classes of TagLib::Tag.  Of course, the complication is that not all 
of the supported tag formats has support for these concepts, particularly 
ID3v1.

So I'd like to ask the list what their collective thoughts are on how to 
handle situations such as these.  The concepts of "album artist" and "artist 
sort" are broadly supported by much audio software, so I can definitely see an 
argument for supporting these concepts at the abstract level of the Tag 
interface.  However, what should the behavior be for formats (such as ID3v1) 
that do not support such concepts?

-- 
Jason Voegele
As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words.
You can deal with that... :-)
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