Bugzilla – Bug 17542
Albums not credited to Album Artist
Last modified: 2013-07-17 05:58:57 UTC
I see this in all interfaces. If I have an artist that appears on an album with a different ALBUMARTIST, and I search for or browse that artist, the artist's name appears for the album, not the ALBUMARTIST. Here are a couple of examples: 1. ALBUM=Duets ALBUMARTIST=Frank Sinatra TITLE=The Lady Is A Tramp TRACKNUMBER=1 ARTIST=Frank Sinatra ARTIST=Luther Vandros If I browse Luther Vandros, this album is by 'Luther Vandros', not 'Frank Sinatra'. 2. ALBUM=Getz/Gilberto ALBUMARTIST=Stan Getz & João Gilberto ARTIST=Stan Getz ARTIST=João Gilberto If I browse Stan Getz, this album is by 'Stan Getz', not 'Stan Getz & João Gilberto'.
Are you adding multiple ARTIST values or are you using the "split field" method (eg. "Sinatra; Vandros")?
They're all FLAC files with multiple artist fields, not using a separator to split fields.
Created attachment 7464 [details] example Here's a good visual example from SqueezePlay. This is browsing My Music > Artists > Kanye West. Kanye West appears as a guest on one track of Jamie Foxx's album 'Unpredictable'. You can see how the album artist is suppressed for the other albums, but for the Jamie Foxx album it appears as 'Kanye West'.
Created attachment 7539 [details] example2
I experienced there is always written ONE out of the SONG Artists You was browsing Begierde, but in fact it links to the ALBUM artist. E.g if You See Song info page from the James Taylor / Ray Charles Duett (from the Ray Charles (album artist) page, it Shows the album GENIUS LOVES COMPANY JAMES TAYLOR but in fact the JAMES TAYLOR line is linked to Ray Charles. So the Same happens with VARIOUS ARTISTS albums... It gets more complicated if You take albums with more than one album artist like the new METALLICA / LOU REED collaboration ( I tagged it LOU REED; METALLICA having defined ; as separator) and one time it's shown as Lou Reed-album, another time as Metallica-album.... Once again I'd like to say: PLEASE stop the mixture of all rôles, link Song artist to Song artist only, Album artist to album artist only and composer just to composer...
*** Bug 17711 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is not a subtle bug. It's stands out like a sort thumb and causes a great deal of confusion among users, who bring it up a couple times a week in the forums. They don't understand what's going on, only that something is very wrong.
This is a side-effect of the fix for bug 17364. Is anybody willing and able to test a patch before I commit this?
Created attachment 7700 [details] get primary artist if it's different from the artist we're browsing albums for
Committed in af9402b25bb2e6dec6a30a13171d91c3a4642a71