So, I've read the posts in this thread a few times, and I'm not really understanding the new proposal, but sometimes I have trouble grasping the obvious.
Anyway, what seems to happen for me is that if I put something in the Album Artist field it causes the Track Artists to disappear from the artist list in the Media Library and I would like both to be shown.
I'll try to explain (hopefully) more clearly with an example. I have the album "Back to Basics" which is a DJ mix by Danny Tenaglia. Right now I have the artist for each track tagged as the Track Artist and nothing in the Album Artist tag. One of the Track Artists is Dubtribe Sound System. In both of the default view schemes
Artist/Album and
Artist/Genre, Dubtribe Sound System is listed as an artist, which is great, because I can click on that artist and see all the Albums or Genres they belong to. Now, if I add Danny Tenaglia as the Album Artist to all of the tracks on that album, the Track Artists (like Dubtribe Sound System) disappear from the artist list in both of those view schemes and only the Album Artist (Danny Tenaglia) is shown. What I would like is for both the Album Artist and the Track Artists to appear in the same list. Is there a way to do this in the current version of MJ that I'm just not seeing, or is this something that will be addressed in MJ9?
Also, as AlonsoN mentioned, a way to handle multiple Track Artists would be cool. For example, a few of the tracks on the "O Brother. Where Art Thou?" soundtrack have multiple artists. I would like to be able to put both Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch as artist for the track "I'll Fly Away" and have each of them appear in the artist list separately.
Anyway, if none of this makes sense and I'm just babbling, feel free to
Listening to: 'Where I Want To Be' from 'Chess' by 'Benny Andersson/Tim Rice/Bjorn Ulvaeus' on Media Jukebox