Add an option to sort Artists by "ALBUM ARTIST" instead of "Artist"

[Tom4tot]

Description

When I browser my music, I'm personally used to look for album artist ("ALBUM ARTIST" tag, or more rarely "ALBUMARTIST") rather than for artist.
Typically, in some genres, I have compilation albums of tens or even hundreds of songs, which equal to almost the same number of artists. It makes my library on Auxio very messy, and it would look much clearer if there was only one artist shown for one compilation (the album artist).

Would it be possible to add an option to chose to sort by ALBUM ARTIST? Or if you think it would become inaccurate, add an "album artist" tab and be able to choose album artist over artist when opening genres?

Thank you in advance for your answer!

Problem solved

No response

Other implementations

Usually, other players offer the option.

Benefit

Make the player slightly more flexible, potentially better for some users, depending on how they tag and use their library.

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[OxygenCobalt]

Auxio's music model is deliberately unaware of album artist tags. There's only artists that are derived from both artist and album artist tags, so sorting or associating by album artists alone is not possible. This is intentional, as I have always disliked the disjoint artist/album artist separation of other music players. Adding any kind of flexibility here would only make the experience more confusing. Sorry.

[Tom4tot]

That's unfortunate, but thanks for the clarification.