Re: [Libmtp-discuss] 'Year' field

[Linus W. <lin...@gm...>]

2007/12/28, Alan McGovern <ala...@gm...>:

> I'm not 100% sure what players do support AlbumArtist, but the idea is that
> for mix albums (albums with tracks from more than 1 artist), the 'Artist'
> field will represent the  actual creator of the track whereas the  'Album
> Artist' will represent the person who put all the songs on the cd.

Ah OK.

> Some media players do support those tags in their library features so you
> don't end up with dozens of artists with 1 track each, that's why i asked
> about it.

Perhaps we need to be able to set this for players that supports this.
That'd involve a library soname bump and some inconvinience...

App writers: will clients like Amarok, Rhythmbox etc support setting
the "Album Artist" tag correctly if we support it?

Linus