Use ID3 v2.4 artists for artist listing if available
Hi! First off amazing work, Lollypop is by far my favorite desktop music player.
It would be cool if artist lists (such as the sidebar) used the ID3 v2.4 ARTISTS
field if available, instead of the normal ARTIST
field. The way I tag my files (and which is also the default in the popular MusicBrainz Picard tagger), is to set ARTIST to the artist as credited (e.g. VALENTINE & Xavi feat. Harvie
) and ARTISTS as a multi-value containing each individual artist (e.g. VALENTINE
; Xavi
; Harvie
).
Unfortunately, the ARTISTS
field seems to be ignored when creating artist lists, so instead of the example track being listed each under VALENTINE
, Xavi
and Harvie
in the sidebar, it is listed only once under VALENTINE & Xavi feat. Harvie
. This makes it much harder to discover, for example when I'm on Xavi's page I don't see this track even though he is credited for it. It also makes the sidebar pretty cluttered and frankly very annoying to use with many collab tracks in my collection.
My suggestion would be to keep using the ARTIST
field by default, but as soon as an ARTISTS
field is found, ARTIST
is ignored for that track.