If I understand what he’s saying correctly (I think he means “Composer” when he says “Artist Composer”), it’s one of the issues that I mentioned in the feature request mentioned above. It’s one of the things that everyone is doing wrong, because they don’t support enough of the available tags. Musicbrainz’s style guidelines for classical music says:
“The Release Artist of a classical Release should include the writers (composers, lyricists, librettists) and performers featured on the front cover…”
This, I think, tends to result in the composer being tagged as the Album Artist (in MB and other databases), rather than the orchestra or soloist (or all three, and you’ll need to parse them). That, in turn, affects what Plex and others pull from them.
This is the big conundrum where classical is concerned - something I mentioned in a thread a few years ago. I don’t know the solution, but I think it will be a big job for you guys. The “Robust…” feature request is probably just the tip of the iceberg. The trick becomes “When I have some albums that are Composer-centric, others that are Performer-centric (orchestra and/or conductor), others that are Soloist-centric (with or without accompaniment), and still others that don’t fit any of those, how do you design a system that presents all 3 4 in a usable way?”
I’m happy to coordinate. I have two copies of my Classical files, one tagged with the composer as Album Artist, so Plex will display them that way, and the other tagged more strictly according to the ID3 specs (Composer=“Beethoven”, Album Artist =“Berlin Philharmonic”, for example).
