I tend to stick it all in the artist field, because the other fields don't get displayed very often. For example, I use these formats
Vocalist / comp: Composer, arr: Arranger
Composer / arr: Arranger
I get the feeling that the id3 tagging standard was created to mostly satisfy the requirements for tagging Western rock/pop/etc bands, so it's really lacking when dealing with VGM (and doesn't conform to the Japanese style which designates Lyricist/Composer/Arranger/Performer for most works.)
By the same token, my biggest tag-related problem with services like LastFM is that they are artist-centric, whereas soundtracks are album-centric. The only way to rectify that would have been to put the album title in the artist or track title tags, but that's unwieldy and it's too late for that. One example to see the limitations -- if you saw the track Stage 1 by Capcom Sound Team, there's no way to figure out just what that is.
So yeah, tagging is an issue with which we're just not going to be satisfied.
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