Hi all. This is not a request for info to resolve an issue - more a request for opinions.
I have never stored info in the Album Artist field - I simply use the Artist field. So, for 99.9% of my stored files I have a blank album artist field.
If an album by a specific artist has guests that perform on specific tracks then I do not have both artist and guest in the artist field - I store the guest in the title eg (With Al Rennie) or in the comment field.
Is this something that other people do (or similar) or do they list specific quests in the Artist field?
For compilations, multi artist albums, etc I do not use Various Artists in the album artist field - simply relying upon JRiver to manage this - and seeing them all under (Multiple Artists) in the Library views.
Likewise - is this what you would do or would you use VA, Various, Various Artists, etc in the Album Artist field.
BTW - In some cases I have multi CD compilations where one or more disks might be solely for a specific artist so these specific disks would be split out of (Multiple Artists) and into the alphabetical list. In these cases I have used Album Artist just to combine them all together in the Artist View.
The reason I ask is that I've just finished fixing up tags and fields and folders and so on for all my collection and this stuck out as a possible anomaly - when I obtain a new release it almost always has the specific artist in the Album Artist field (or Various Artists) and I manually remove them.
So just asking for opinions on the worth of using these fields.