Ross if you have time, could you have a look at this?  Otherwise, feel free to assign it back to me.  You'll want to either convert your 'albums' to WMA or rip a couple of CDs (I have some if you need) and edit the tags.

I've created a zip file that contains some tracks, in the proper directory structure if you want a quick test case.

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> I've created a zip file that contains some tracks, in the proper directory
> structure if you want a quick test case.
> 

Would you mind uploading them here? If you can't do that, can you email them to me (ross@slimdevices.com)?

I've sent a link to you via email.

SlimServer Version: 6.3.0 - 8132 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252

I was able to reproduce this bug. When grouping either as multiple albums or single album (group disc within behaviour) the artists show up accurately, but also show up as various artists. Using the test files from Mike Cappella:

\\roscoxp\bug 3652

Having let this bug through makes me fairly unhappy.  Is a 6.5 nightly the right target for this?

It depends. It might already be fixed in 6.5 :)

Sorry to be the source of your unhappiness!  Its not high priority for me, but others might like a 6.3.x fix.

Also - it'd be useful if the files were attached to this bug.

Thanks

I didn't want to post ripped tracks, as they are available to anyone who wants to download them.  I didn't see any other way to post data that would be accessible to slimdevices only.

Ok.. fire away with a link then.. I'd like to see if this is an issue under 6.5.

Thanks

Emailed link to Dan. Also I've made the files available \\roscoxp\bug 3652 which may not do DS much good. Sorry about that. 

FYI, works fine in 6.5

Tried in 6.5, sure enough it shows up as it should, as Various Artists. I suppose the various behavioural options are still in the works. 

So this is a dupe of bug 2638.

The fix for 6.5 went in as change 8140 - line 1640 is the relevant part.

I think this will be safe for 6.3.1

Chris / Dean, your thoughts?

Dan,

I merged your (relevant) changes into my 6.3 latest SVN, and the fixes appear to work.  There is one minor nit for your consideration.

When Album Artist is set to "Various Artists", with FLAC files, the Artist shown under Browse Artists gets mapped to what is set in the VariousArtistsString prefs value.  In my case, its "(Various Artists)" for sorting at the top of the browse list.

However, for WMA files, with the same Album Artist setting of "Various Artists", the Artist shown under Browse Artists is left as "Various Artists" and is *not* mapped to the value in VariousArtistsString.

The inconsistency creates both "(Various Arists)" and "Various Artists" in the browse lists.  I suppose I could remove all the Album Artist tags that are set to "Various Artists" and the problem might go away, but since WMA files actually use WM/AlbumArtist tags (which I know internally get mapped to AlbumArtist), I'm not sure and didn't want to proceed without comment from you.

As background, I setup Album Artist on all my compilation albums to Various Artists in J.River's MC, to override their use of the string "(Multiple Artists)" when no Album Artist is set and tracks have different artists.

Ok Mike - I'm not going to merge the change into 6.3.1, but I will take a look at the VA issue for 6.5

Mike - so the best thing to do would be to change your FLAC files to be just 'Various Artists', change the 'Various Artists String' in SlimServer's Settings, or possibly remove the string from your FLAC files completely, and set COMPILATION=1

Not much I can do in SlimServer itself.

Thanks for the time investigating Dan.  Its really no big deal either way for me, as I'll be ditching the remaining WMA files anyway.  I was just noting the minor apparent inconsistencies in my situation.