oh, and a third question: why does i-tunes break up some albums, rather than keeping the songs together? this happened particularly with speakerboxx (several of the songs have guest artists, and when i click the "album view" option in i-tunes, it shows each song with a guest artist as its own separate album.
In librarian-speak, there's no name authority control. All of the tracks in which the artist is entered exactly the same way are "collocated" together and I'm guessing that probably albums are identified by [more librarian-speak] name-title added entry: the combination of artist + album name (as long as they are exactly the same). So if the artist on a track is even slightly different -- say, if there's a "and guest artist" tacked onto the end -- that'll make it appear to be a completely different artist to the dumb computer... and by extension, the difference will make that into a different name-title entry and thus a different "album."
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Date: 2007-04-18 06:18 am (UTC)In librarian-speak, there's no name authority control. All of the tracks in which the artist is entered exactly the same way are "collocated" together and I'm guessing that probably albums are identified by [more librarian-speak] name-title added entry: the combination of artist + album name (as long as they are exactly the same). So if the artist on a track is even slightly different -- say, if there's a "and guest artist" tacked onto the end -- that'll make it appear to be a completely different artist to the dumb computer... and by extension, the difference will make that into a different name-title entry and thus a different "album."