[ID3 Dev] Suggestion for 2.4.1 Update

[Jud White]

I think TPE1 is appropriate for track artist.  It would be non-intuitive 
from my POV to search for an artist and have to consider two fields 
because one track happens to reside on a VA album.

TXXX/Album Artist is used by foobar and other players/taggers to denote 
the album artist in a VA album.  I think a formal field for Album Artist 
would make a great addendum.  As shown with CHAP, CTOC and ATXT a 
revision number isn't needed (many reasons for that as well).

Dennis W. Mattison wrote:
> I suggest another field be added to the ID3V2 spec specifically for 
> Track Artists (for use as a holder for "featured artist" or for the 
> artist responsible for a track in a "Various Artists" compilation 
> CD.)  I propose a field similar to the TPE1 field.  Attached is the 
> verbage for a new TRAR field (if accepted) to be included in the 4.2.2 
> section of the spec:
>
> TRAR
>    The 'Featured Artist/Track Artist' frame is intended for a featured 
> artist of a song, or in the case of a "Various Artists" compilation, 
> is intended for the Lead Artist/Lead Performer/Soloist of the track.
>
> There have been several implementations of a "Track Artist" field in 
> MP3 ID3 tags, such as MusicMatch's COMM engMusicMatch_TrackArtist 
> field, and nobody seems to want to standardize on one particular field 
> name which everyone can commonly use.  I have a lot of Various Artist 
> compilations, which I'd love to keep the Artist as "Various Artist" in 
> order to group them together, but also indicate the artist of the 
> particular track I am listening to.  Adding a TRAR field to the spec 
> would allow everyone to standardize their players to allow for this 
> level of capability.
>
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