Bugzilla – Bug 18130
Album artists from compilations aren't listed under Album Artists
Last modified: 2016-02-13 20:25:31 UTC
When a compilation album is tagged such as ALBUMARTIST=Soundtrack COMPILATION=1 The album artist 'Soundtrack' isn't listed under Album Artists. I do note one exception to this. ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists COMPILATION=1 That artist _is_ listed. It appears that LMS is specifically excluding album artists of compilation albums from the list. I can't think of any reason to do so.
Voted any artist can have a compilation album , and be listed as albumartist and have the compilation tag set to 1, so you can possibly have more artists suppressed here .
Is this a new issue in 7.9? Does the behavior depend on whether you're using the two artists list or the unified one?
(In reply to comment #2) > Is this a new issue in 7.9? Does the behavior depend on whether you're using > the two artists list or the unified one? Good question. See this discussion: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?101516-7-9-Problems-Bugs&p=819354&viewfull=1#post819354 If you consider the 'group compilations' behavior in 7.8 and earlier to be correct/desirable, then yes, this is new to 7.9 and appears only when using two artist lists. Any contributor who has only an ALBUMARTIST role on compilation album(s) will not be listed among the Album Artists. The behavior in 7.9 with a single artist list is the same as previously, and depends on how the 'group compilations' option is set.
i believe this bug is related to the out of the box string conflict bug 9523 and also bug 15604 which imo was closed prematurely. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103494-Compilation-Tag-causing-Artist-Album-Artist-problems