Bugzilla – Bug 2638
All artists of an album are shown in browse artists although ALBUMARTIST is set
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
First a preliminary note: I have set the option that artists who have only songs on compilation albums are not shown in the browse artist list in order to reduce the number of shown artists. Now to the problem: I have an album of Artist1 on which one song is a duet of Artist1 and Artist2. For this song the artist tag is set to "Artist1 & Artist2" and the "&" is set as separator for the "multiple item in tags" option. In order to prevent that slimserver sets the compilation flag for this album (since it detects two different artists) I have set the ALBUMARTIST tag to Artist1. Everything is now fine except that Artist2 is now also shown in the "Browse Artist" list (which I want to avoid since it is the only song of this artist on all my albums). I think, with the option set to show only artists having complete albums in the browse album list, when ALBUMARTIST is set for an album, only the ALBUMARTIST should be shown in the browse album list (although it is not a real compilation since the compilation flag is not set). I tried as workaround to set the compilation flag manually. Then Artist1 AND Artist2 are not shown in the browse album list. Shouldn't Artist1 be shown since ALBUMARTIST is set?
I believe so. Could you upload a few example files? Thanks.
Created attachment 1059 [details] Example files without set compilation flag Zip-File containing three small example files for reproducing this bug. Artist for track 1 and track 3 is "Bryan Adams", artist for track 2 is "Bryan Adams & Dummy Artist". Albumartist for all tracks is "Bryan Adams". Compilation flag is not set.
Created attachment 1060 [details] Same example files with compilation flag set to 1 Zip-file containing the same example files as before with compilation flag set to 1.
*** Bug 2317 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in change 8140
Which of the two cases described in comment #1 is fixed? Case 1: That Artist2 is also shown in browse artists if ALBUMARTIST=Artist1 and COMPILIATION is NOT set (and if Artist2 has no own album). Maybe this is no bug but on purpose. Case 2: That ALBUMARTIST (Artist1) is not shown in browse artists if COMPILATION is set to 1 or both cases?
Only case 1. If you are explictly setting a COMPILATION flag, then we assume you know what you are doing, and want that album to be classified as such.