I should be able to click on any of those individuals and find all the music theyвЂ™ve recorded thatвЂ™s in my iTunes library I shouldnвЂ™t have to perform a search to find them.ДЄnd going back to Jazz, wouldnвЂ™t it be nice to be able to list as Artist each of the sidemen on albums? So you can not only have Miles Davis as Artist for Kind of Blue, but also John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the others? Now, thatвЂ™s a very long artist tag, and itвЂ™s one thatвЂ™s hard to read in iTunes even more so on the iOS Music app.Д«ut what we should be able to do is have one tag for Sir Colin Davis, another for the Covent Garden, another for Jon Vickers, etc. So, you may tag an album вЂ“ such as a recording of BerliozвЂ™s Les Troyens available from the iTunes Store вЂ“ with the following вЂњArtistвЂќ: Berit Lindholm, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Jon Vickers, Josephine Veasey, Sir Colin Davis & Wandsworth School Boys Choir. Each of the solo singers, generally four or more.For any opera, you have the following artists: This would be especially useful with classical music.

It would make a lot more sense to be able to apply multiple artists in this case, one Artist tag would be Thelonious Monk, and another would be John Coltrane. But what if youвЂ™re a die-hard Coltrane fan? Perhaps you want to say John Coltrane with the Thelonious Monk Quartet.ДЄnd thatвЂ™s the problem: creating artists with multiple names is messy. Which artist do you use? Thelonius Monk, The Thelonius Monk Quartet, or Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane? If youвЂ™re a Monk fan, but not a Coltrane fan, you might want one of those. For example, I mentioned in a Macworld article about tagging in iTunes, published today, that thereвЂ™s an album by Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane which poses problems for tagging. I have a lot of stuff in my iTunes library that doesnвЂ™t easily fit in one tag.

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