Better Compilation Support (FLAC)

[lvitalis]

As a music lover and obsessive audio library tagger, I want AudioWagon to handle compilations, so that I can browse my catalog easily.

Use case A famous artist, John, has released a compilation album of 20 tracks, all covers or remixes of his own songs. Each track was made by a different artist, of various notoriety.

The tracks are tagged like this :

• ARTIST contains the name of the artist who did the song cover (individual artist for each track)
• ALBUM ARTIST contains John
• ALBUM contains Covers of John

Result (in v0.3.4) Albums list contains the same album, repeated for each different ARTIST tag . If you click on an album, you only get the songs from ARTIST. Artists list contains 20 somewhat unknown artists. Artists list does not containt the main artist, John.

Expected result Albums list should contain the album once with the ALBUM ARTIST name. An album should include every track of the same ALBUM and ALBUM ARTIST. Artists list should only contain ALBUM ARTIST. Artists list should not contain every individual ARTIST name.

When playing, the track's ARTIST tag can still be displayed on the screen. Decision to include ALBUM ARTIST is up to you.

Further improvement User could decide in the settings to include the individual artists of a compilation in the Artists list.

FLAC-compilation.zip

NB : A standard was not established early on and, sadly, both ALBUM ARTIST and ALBUMARTIST tags are used by different tagging softwares. Therefore, it would be necessary to read them both, if the feature is implemented.

NB2 : In MP3 files, Album Artist is stored in the TPE2 tag.

[lvitalis]

Made my description much more detailed.

[MoleMan1024]

this has been added in 1.1.0, see https://github.com/MoleMan1024/audiowagon/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#110---2021-11-16