Use ALBUMARTIST tag instead of ARTIST for sorting library

[sylvainsab]

• Vanilla 1.0.83
• Android 9 Pie
• Phone Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact
• Application was downloaded from (use [x]):
  • Play Store
  • F-Droid
  • Other (Nightly Build)
• Did this work in a previous version?
  • Yes
  • No
  • NA / Don't know.

Description

Albums constituted by tracks of various artists render the Artist view in the library bloated/over-loaded with multiple artists. This is unpractical for a library with compilations, movie soundtracks albums, etc.

Seems more or less a duplicate of :
#950
#953
#801
#742
#663
#652

Steps to reproduce the issue

Have in your library an album such as a compilation/collaboration, soundtrack, etc.
Setting the ALBUMARTIST and ALBUMARTISTSORT tag to "Various Artists" (in my language "Artistes Divers") does not change the behavior.

Screenshot / Video (If applicable)

[adrian-bl]

Sounds like enabling the album artist tab in Settings > Library > Tab Order would do what you want to do?

[sylvainsab]

Indeed it seems it would.

I thought I had gone over such a simple parameter long ago, so I didn't bother to check it. Apologies.
Now that I remember though, the reason why I put "Artiste" instead of "Artiste de l'Album" was that the latter has such a long name that it hides the other sections on my small-sized screen.

I use the following tabs :
Genres | Artist (or Album Artist) | Albums | Tracks | Files

I can still swipe the screen, but I prefer to click especially while searching for tracks.