setting ignore.sort in the All Artists tag?

[pete_w]

I think we're in violent agreement about the way that it works at the moment :-)

Let's use this example above. (But as I say, this is somewhat hypothetical, I'm not richly tagged). Let's say I have 10 Peterson albums of 10 tracks each, plus 60 tracks where he's backing other other people (in other words where he's an Artist but not the AlbumArtist. So when I look for music by Oscar, you offer me 10 Albums and 160 Items.

So if I fancy listening to a bit of OP accompanying someone else, 'cos I happen to like his work as a sideman, then I have to wade through 160 items, yes?

That's not an easy ask. The Naim control app puts 8 items on the screen at once, but the DCS one only puts 4 - just 4 - items on the screen at once. Trying to get through 160 items, 4 at a time, trying to work out which are OP album tracks and which are other people's, could get somewhat, err, tedious.

So is there scope for another auto-generated composite tag, analogous to "All Artists", which is generated once you go down one of the artist branches, which is "list of items with this Artist as an Artist when their name doesn't match the AlbumArtist field". One might need a snappier name :-).