Still in MJ8 until MC9 is more stable
I would like to take advantage of the "Album Artist" field present in MJ8 and will start to use it for my compilation tracks. I am also considering to re-tag all the tracks already in my library that belong to a "Multiple Artist". Currently all my tracks are tagged "à la KingSparta"(if I may say so)
i.e., using only the artist field for the performer and the name field for the tittle. This results in a huge amount of artists with only 1 or 2 songs (those whose album is a compilation). I think that the use of the "Album Artist" field will give me more versatilty in the useof view schemes and so.
Any way... I've done some research in the MC9 forum and found out that there has been an important controversy about the way MC9 handles the "Album Artist" thing. There is the automated system... firstly it seemed that the "Album Artist" field of MJ8 had ben taken out, though I understand that it was put back in later builds. However, despite of my research, I'm not quite sure as to what has been the final decission.
Since I'd like to start the re-tagging and it's a big library (circa 20.000 tracks), I would like to be sure that the "Album Artist" field in MC9 is the same that in MJ8 and would like toknow whether I could have some problem relating to it when upgrading the library from MJ8 to MC9.
Any advise and/or suggestion will be very much appreciated.
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