JANEPRENTISS666

I would like to use the album artist tag to browse all artists in my library (from non-VA releases). It appears that the album artist view only lists all artists that explicitly occur in the ALBUMARTIST tag. I think it would be much more convenient if the view also listed all artists that are shared by an entire album with no ALBUMARTIST set. A lot of desktop players do this, unfortunately the functionality seems a lot less common on mobile. Having to use the artist view is annoying because it's clogged by a million one-track artists from VA releases - although at least Poweramp lets you see the number of tracks per artist at a glance.

When I want to use Poweramp, I basically need to wait for a full rescan every time I've rebooted my phone, because Poweramp forgets the stored tag information for its entire database. Sometimes I also encounter a similar problem where every (or almost every) song returns a "Failed to play track". I'd guess both of these might have to do with delays mounting/reading the SD card, but that's just speculation. Behavior seems very similar to what's seen on Android 7 on the FiiO M11, strangely enough: I would blame my hardware, except other media players (like GoneMAD and foobar2000) handle it fine, so I think there must be a solution.