Additional Artist fields for Contributing/Album/etc Artist
What is the problem you are facing?
The link between a track's artist and a song belonging to an album not "owned" by that artist is missing. See Context. I would propose adding a list of fields "additional Artists" to tracks/albums to link e.g. compilation albums like soundtracks to quickly find albums that artists participated in.
What are the possible drawbacks or issues with the requested changes?
- DB Schema update, i assume
- Which ID3 Tag to draw from?
- Album Artist? Artist? Contributing Artist? (any additional artist tags that i missed?)
Context
When importing via InPlace-Import, my Albums got the Tracks' Album Artist as the only Artist. While this might be correct in some cases, i now have no way to find the Albums that certain Artists contribute to.
E.g. Album X has 3 tracks by 3 different Artists -> Album Artist is set to 'Various Artists' The 3 tracks get imported correctly, Track Artist gets assigned to existing Artist. Album is stored under artist 'Various Artists' and does not show up under any of the track's artists, losing a intuiitive chain to find tracks/albums.
Additionaly some Screenshots: You can see the album being "owned" by Various Artists with the Tracklist on the right.
Now the Track is owned by artist Overseer and in Album Need For Speed Underground Soundtrack
But when going to Overseer's Artist page, the track shows up, but not the album the artist obviously contributed to.