One question about "album artist" and "primary artist"

[Niccolo_Terzi (Niccolò Terzi)]

So, i have this questions.
let’s take this example:

Here, i don’t understand why David Murray is transformed in a link in the album artist string, while Gwo-Ka Masters is not.

If i edit the album metadata (album artist settings) with “David Murray & Gwo-Ka Masters” (or “David Murray / Gwo-Ka Masters” or similar, but NOT “David Murray and the Gwo-Ka Masters”) i get:

which is what i expected. so, i don’t understand when a primary artist link is transferred to the album artist string and when is not.

[John_V]

It is doing what it can to parse the string. It was the extraneous “the” that caused the problem. I’ve found a slash between exact copies of the primary artists’ names works, e.g. “David Murray / Gwo-Ka Masters”

[AndersVinberg]

As @John_V says, it is the exact form of the reference, the word “the”.

I touch on this in this feature request