Bug 2317 – Request to support 'Album Artist' Tag from J.River Media Center 11

Bug 2317 - Request to support 'Album Artist' Tag from J.River Media Center 11

Summary:

Request to support 'Album Artist' Tag from J.River Media Center 11

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2638

Product:	Logitech Media Server
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Tagging
Version:	6.2.0
Platform:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P2 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Dan Sully

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Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2005-10-19 10:45 UTC by Sue Chastain
Modified:	2008-09-15 14:39 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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MP3 file containing 'Album Artist' field as written by J.River Media Center 11 (830.00 KB, application/octet-stream) 2005-10-19 10:52 UTC, Sue Chastain	Details
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Description Sue Chastain 2005-10-19 10:45:24 UTC

I was wondering if you would consider supporting the "Album Artist" field from 
J.River Media Center 11? It is written to a custom comment field. I'll upload a 
sample file which has 'Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' as 'Artist' and 'Tom 
Petty' as 'Album Artist.'

Comment 1 Sue Chastain 2005-10-19 10:52:21 UTC

Created attachment 923 [details]
MP3 file containing 'Album Artist' field as written by J.River Media Center 11

Here's a sample file from MC11 which has 'Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' as
'Artist' and 'Tom Petty' as 'Album Artist.'

Comment 2 Dan Sully 2005-10-28 16:43:27 UTC

Sue - I'm going to have to push this off for now - one part of the fix is easy, but your test file exposes 
another bug that I need more time to make sure it doesn't break anything else.

Comment 3 Sue Chastain 2005-10-28 20:17:58 UTC

Ok, Thanks for letting me know! 

Somewhat related: I was experimenting today with copying MC's Album Artist 
info into the TPE2/Band tag to see if it would behave like I want, but it 
didn't do what had hoped either. If you have time, could you possibly weigh in 
on this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17570

Comment 4 Dan Sully 2005-10-30 22:58:22 UTC

Fixed in change 4962.

Comment 5 Sue Chastain 2005-10-31 19:04:40 UTC

Thanks. This does show the Album Artist in the Browse Albums list now. 
However, I was hoping that Album Artist would over-ride (track) Artist in the 
Browse Artists list when it exists. I do not want to list compilations 
under "various artists" except in those cases where I have defined a specific 
Album Artist. Is this possible? Currently I have "List compilations under each 
artist" and "List albums by band" for the compilation settings. In my mind, 
this should give me what I want, but it doesn't. Instead I am getting all the 
song artists in the list, in addition to the Album Artist. Maybe there needs 
to be another option for this?

I know this seems unrelated to the original enhancement request, but it was 
the reason behind it.

Comment 6 Dan Sully 2005-11-01 21:46:33 UTC

Ok - this becomes a non-trivial change which needs some more thought and is out of the 6.2.1 bug fix 
timeframe.

Comment 7 Dan Sully 2006-06-23 09:24:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2638 ***