ACX wrote@[deleted] can you bring a practical example of how you expect that to work instead of the current way?
Absolutely. For example, here is my list of my "Album Artists," or artists who are attributed as such on MusicBrainz (A small sample):
Armstrong, Louis
Bennett, Tony
Coltrane, John
Crosby, Bing
Davis, Miles
Fitzgerald, Ella
Jones, Thad
Martin, Dean
Miller, Glenn
Porter, Cole
Sinatra, Frank
Various Artists
However, here's what RuneUI lists as "Artists:"
Al Bowlly & Lew Stone & His Band
Ambrose and His Orchestra & Sam Brown
Billie Holiday
Bing Crosby
Dean Martin
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Frank Sinatra
John Coltrane
...
Louis Armstrong & Benny Carter and His Orchestra
Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
Louis Armstrong & The Commanders
Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra
...
The list goes on and on. As you can see, finding all albums that are attributed to Louis Armstrong can be pretty difficult this way.
Another example (here's the concept, not a list) is for classical compilation CDs, such as "Famous Quartets" by the "Made-up String Quartet." The album artist is the Made-up String Quartet, and that is whom I will search to play the album. However, the artists (according to MusicBrainz, which is how I've tagged my whole library) would be: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn. So, the current Artists view would only allow me to search the album in fragments and not by the artist. If I wanted to listen to everything by the Made-up String Quartet, it would be a bit more annoying to find all these albums. I hope this cleared up my thinking a bit.
