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BryanC:
I've always appreciated that [Album Artist (auto)] alleviates the need to manually tag an [Album Artist] when [Artist] is identical across an album. I'd like to extend that functionality by also setting [Album Artist (auto) to the [Artist] if that artist is always the first item in the [Artist] list for each track on an album. Currently, when a second artist is added to the [Artist] list [Album Artist (auto)] is set to (Multiple Artists) even if the album artist is the first artist on every track.

Because a picture is worth a thousand words:

With [Album Artist] set:


Without:


...since Ethan Gruska is the first artist on every track on the album it would make sense for [Album Artist (auto)] to pick him up as the album artist instead of falling back to (Multiple Artists).

marko:
The topic title made me nervous, but, on reading, really, that makes perfect sense to me.

EnglishTiger:
Since they say  "A Picture is worth a thousand words" here are 2 that display why this suggestion should never be implemented:-

zybex:
@englishTiger: The change would not affect those 2 albums, both would remain as (Multiple Artists).

The current rules are something like this:
1. if [Album Artist] is not blank, then [Album Artist (Auto)] = [Album Artist]
2. else, if [Artist] is the same on all tracks, then [Album Artist (Auto)] = [Artist]
3. else, [Album Artist (Auto)] = "(Multiple Artists)"

The request would just add a single word to rule 2:
2. else, if the first [Artist] is the same on all tracks, then [Album Artist (Auto)] = first [Artist]

OK, 3 words. Both your examples would fall into rule 1. And if you clear [Album Artist], they would still fall into rule 3, so the chnage would have no impact for those albums.

EnglishTiger:

--- Quote from: zybex on February 12, 2022, 02:30:01 am ---@englishTiger: The change would not affect those 2 albums, both would remain as (Multiple Artists).

The current rules are something like this:
1. if [Album Artist] is not blank, then [Album Artist (Auto)] = [Album Artist]
2. else, if [Artist] is the same on all tracks, then [Album Artist (Auto)] = [Artist]
3. else, [Album Artist (Auto)] = "(Multiple Artists)"

The request would just add a single word to rule 2:
2. else, if the first [Artist] is the same on all tracks, then [Album Artist (Auto)] = first [Artist]

OK, 3 words. Both your examples would fall into rule 1. And if you clear [Album Artist], they would still fall into rule 3, so the chnage would have no impact for those albums.

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Zy - Your rule 2 needs modifying the test should be if the Artist tag/field for the subsequent tracks CONTAINS the Artist from Track 1.
Tracks 4, 8 and 10 have 2 Artists Listed so the way you have set up the test the Album Artist(Auto) and by Inference the Album Artist will end up as (Multiple Artists)
Plus, and I'd hate to have to write it, there is another scenario where the result the OP desires would not happen - and that is where Track 1 contains more than 1 Artist but the Artist for all the remaining tracks is only the one whose name appears 1st in the list of Artists for Track 1.

The simplest way of preventing MC from Making any Decisions about what Album Artists and Album Artist(Auto) should contain is for the user to make sure the Album Artist field/tag is never left empty; something that requires no changes to MC

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