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#89 AlbumArtist container
I would like to request a feature for a container that includes the IDtag albumartist. This allows me to separate the compilation albums with various artists from the albums that carry a single artist only.
I currently run a patched version of Twonky that allows me to do this, but it would be great if this feature could be implemented so to ditch Twonky altogether.
I'd also love to see this feature - in fact, as an album-oriented collector (as opposed to many who just collect tracks), I strongly believe this is the appropriate default.
It's not just for Various Artists collections (which can easily be handled as a special case). There are many albums out there that for different reasons have differing track artists but a single album artist. Eg. Blackie and the Rodeo Kings "Kings and Queens" features different collaborators on each track along with the main artist (see https://musicbrainz.org/release/2a235ab5-e23f-472a-8c5b-cbbe5b3c1a58 ). A perhaps better known album along this vein is Tony Bennett's "Duets: An American Classic" (see https://musicbrainz.org/release/fef4f392-941f-4e1f-824f-1981f8b5f318 ).
Many compilations featuring an artist's work in earlier bands, such as Neil Young's Decade ( https://musicbrainz.org/release/d958f6f1-cabc-4049-be4c-a046bc6ca90e ) also show this tendency to have multiple track artists that don't match the album artist.