Two artists with the same name

[supertwister]

Hello,
My music library contain two artists with the same name - John Williams. One is a composer and the other is a guitar player. Both of them are displayed under the same artist in MB. Please see the screenshot below. These albums doesn't belong to the same artist.
 
Is there any way to separate them?

[psychoadept]

The only direct way I know of would be to give them slightly different names, like "John Williams (composer)" vs "John Williams (guitarist)".  But I know that's not ideal, especially if you need compatibility for scrobbling or something.

If you have the Musicbrainz ids, those will be different and you might be able to make use of them in some ways. Maybe you could make a virtual tag to use in place of Artist l

[vincent kars]

I use the Artist tag for performers.
In case of John Williams (composer) I would put him in the composer tag.

[boroda]

also you could try to use different sort-artist tags, but the same artist tags.

[Bee-liever]

also you could try to use different sort-artist tags, but the same artist tags.

I was hoping this would work with the new sorting tags database but, unfortunately, MB justs tells you there is inconsistencies in the database and still puts all the artists/album artists with same name together 

[boroda]

 

[wobbly]

maybe  you could use  full  name  for now

"John Christopher Williams" = guitarist
"John Towner Williams =  composer

[supertwister]

maybe  you could use  full  name  for now

"John Christopher Williams" = guitarist
"John Towner Williams =  composer

You're a genius. So simple and elegant solution

[Bee-liever]

You're a genius. So simple and elegant solution

but unfortunately it doesn't work for
The Angels (American 60's girl group / Australian hard rock band)
Jigsaw (UK 70's pop group / Australian 70's pop group)

[wobbly]

You're a genius. So simple and elegant solution

but unfortunately it doesn't work for
The Angels (American 60's girl group / Australian hard rock band)
Jigsaw (UK 70's pop group / Australian 70's pop group)

 how about setting country tag or just 

"Jigsaw UK"  "Jigsaw AU" and "The Angels US"  "The Angels  AU" maybe   

[wobbly]

what if musicbee found the same name but then just  looked a band members and matched on that..  i am just thinking and writing  it  down

[boroda]

there is a request now on wishlist board for custom definition of what is artist (like how we can define what is album).