Bugzilla – Bug 1965
Various Artists albums sometimes not getting picked up.
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:36:01 UTC
Nightly Build : 11th August I have tried the last few nightlies with Various Artists. It isn't working. What is working is that it can now include an artist if you put the artist under "AlbumArtist"'s tag. If you, however, have a different artist under each track in a common album in a single directory, it lists each artist and each single track. I would like to know how this feature is being tested. There doesn't seem to be a way to "mis-configure" this feature. I can only guess that it hasn't actually been completed and enabled yet. For example : Artist : Different for each track Album : Back to the 70's Band : Blank Album Artist : Blank Track Name : Different for each track This will NOT work. It will show a different artist in the artist list, even though "Group Compilation Albums Together" is listed. Artist : Different for each track Album : Back to the 70's Band : Blank Album Artist : Various Artists Track Name : Different for each track This will work. It will show the album under "Various Artists". This defeats the object of the initial feature request, as it was hoped that it would be auto-detecting if it were a compilation - not needing you to manually change AlbumArtist to Various Artists
Please try the 2005-08-12 build, which will be built in 1.5 hours. This feature is being tested daily, and I have a setup exactly as you describe. What types of files are these? MP3? WMA? FLAC?
A mix - about 10,000 MP3 and about 20,000 Lossless WMA Guess who now has his entire life of CDs and LPs in the loft !!!
As an example, one of my wifes albums (before you ask). This shows up as multiple artists and isn't picked up as a "Various Artists" : Title: Prelude and the Sound of Music Artist: Julie Andrews Album: Sound of Music, The Genre: Soundtrack Track: 1 File Format: MP3 Duration: 2:36 File Length: 3,128,908 Bytes Bitrate: 160kbps CBR ID3 Tag Version: ID3v1.1 / ID3v2.3.0 Location: G:\Music\Soundtrack\The Sound of Music\01 - Prelude and the Sound of Music.mp3 (Download) Date Modified: Friday 12 August 2005, 7:15:57 AM Title: Overture and Preludium [Dixit Dominus] Artist: Nuns Chorus Album: Sound of Music, The Genre: Soundtrack Track: 2 File Format: MP3 Duration: 3:14 File Length: 3,906,312 Bytes Bitrate: 160kbps CBR ID3 Tag Version: ID3v1.1 / ID3v2.3.0 Location: G:\Music\Soundtrack\The Sound of Music\02 - Overture and Preludium [Dixit Dominus].mp3 (Download) Date Modified: Friday 12 August 2005, 7:16:04 AM
Julian - using the information you gave me, and the 2005-08-14 nightly - It works fine for me: Title: Prelude and the Sound of Music Album Artist: Compilations Track Artist: Julie Andrews Album: Sound of Music, The Genre: Soundtrack Track: 1 Title: Overture and Preludium [Dixit Dominus] Album Artist: Compilations Track Artist: Nuns Chorus Album: Sound of Music, The Genre: Soundtrack Track: 2 Please make sure you have 'Group Compilation albums together" selected in Settings -> Behavior. You will need to wipe & rescan your database.
I have - confirmed. That's why I raised it as a bug.
I don't understand your comment - is it working for you now?
Group compilations was always set to ON - but still didn't work - hence me raising the bug. It still isn't working. Sorry.
Not resolved - but similar issues being looked at as bug 1964
Julian, we're going to need a couple of sample tracks to test with, Dan can't reproduce the problem with the information as given.
This bug is now closed. It became linked with bug 1964.