Album Artist

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1

I can’t find a sort option by tag “Album Artist”. Using just “Artist” lists too many redundancies when going through a personal library.

Please add “Album Artist” to Audirvana.

2

Do you mean this sorting? :point_down: (I took this screenshot while being on the Local>Albums section)
Screenshot 2024-03-25 at 09.36.41

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3

I was looking in the options for a default setting.

I shall look for this which of course I hadn’t noticed before. Thanks!

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4

You will see this if you click on the button when you are in the LOCAL>Albums section.

5

What happens if the [Album Artist] tag is empty does AS use [Artist]

JRiver has a function [Album Artist (auto)] that does this

6

[Artist], do you mean track artist?

7

Yes , but in many cases in my library there is a track artist and no Album Artists as they are the same . Having to copy [Artist] > [Album Artist] would leave me with a massive BU to do. Not impossible but time consuming .

I was wondering if where [Album Artist] is empty , it can be assumed , in code, to be [Artist] by default.

Especially since AS seems to use Album Artist rather than Artist

8

I see, I will need to check with Damien what happen in such case.

9

I checked with Damien, and if 75% of the track artists are the same when there is no Album artist in the metadata, then we take the track artist. Can you check if it’s the case for you?

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I’ll check some examples and report back