Bugzilla – Bug 1548
Artist, Album and Genre should be case insenstive
Last modified: 2011-05-07 17:45:47 UTC
For the purpose of determining distinct artist, album and genre names, strings should be treated as case insenstive. This is more intuitive from a user perspective and makes the cataloging of the library less sensitive to unintended case variations in tags. Use the mixed case variation of these strings stored in the database for display purposes only.
Jim - I've fixed this in subversion change 3335. Artists (contributors) are now stored in a case-insensitive manner. This was already true for Genres & Albums.
This bug was marked resolved in Slimserver 6.1, which is several versions ago. If you're still seeing this bug, please re-open it. Thanks!
There appears to be a regression in this behavior in the 7.6 nightlies. I believe that it may have been behaving this way in 7.5.x as well. Examples: LCD SoundSystem and LCD Soundsystem appear as different artists Late Of The Pier and Late of the Pier also appear as different artists On a separate note - trailing whitespace has also been an issue with creating "unique" artists. Yes, my tags are a mess but nearly all of my other media players handle this fine. Winamp, Foobar, Amarok, etc. I don't know why anybody would not want this to be the default behavior, but if that is the case it could always be made a configurable option. I'd re-open this tag but it seems I don't have permissions to do so.
It was intentionally changed in 7.6. See the discussion in bug 10324. I don't think 7.5.x is affected. Trailing whitespace problems would be a different (new) bug. It's mentioned in bug 16956.