Bugzilla – Bug 4386
Artist search produces 'Empty' playlist for compilation artists.
Last modified: 2012-02-27 17:33:26 UTC
When searching for an artist using the Squeezebox 3 and remote, an artist is found but pressing right to get to the list of albums for that artist shows 'Empty' but only for artists on compilation albums. All the albums in my library have an ALBUM ARTIST *and* a TRACK ARTIST. In most cases they are identical (eg. For each track on the album 'Doolittle' by 'The Pixies', both ALBUM ARTIST and TRACK ARTIST = 'The Pixies'. If I do an artist search for 'Pixies' it finds 'The Pixies' and hitting the right button shows 'Doolittle' - exactly as I would expect the search function to work. However, I also have an album called 'Anthems'- a compilation album. Here, ALBUM ARTIST is 'Anthems' but each TRACK ARTIST is different. (eg track 1 is a Radiohead track which for which ALBUM ARTIST is 'Anthems' but 'TRACK ARTIST' is 'Radiohead'. If I do an artist search for 'Radiohead' it finds them from the Anthems album but right clicking shows 'Empty'. If now play this empty playlist, it plays the Radiohead track from the Anthems album. Sorry for the drawn out explanation but I wanted to equip you with as much info as possible.
Hi Luga, could you verify your Slimserver settings for me? From the Slimserver web ui, go to Server Settings, and select the 'Behavior' page from the drop-down box. Near the top of that page is a box labeled 'Compilations'. Could you verify the two drop-down menus have the settings you would like to use? For instance, to get the bahavior you're looking for, you'll need to select 'List compilation albums under each artist'. If those are set correctly, please let me know what they are set to, and clarify the behavior you expect so that I can duplicate what you are seeing. Thanks!
The two settings I have are: List compilation albums under each artist List albums by all artists for that album I never touch these so I'm assuming that they are defaults. I would expect that when I do a search for an artist, the first r-click shows the artist match having been found, the second r-click shows the albums featuring that artist and the third r-click shows the tracks by that artist on the album. (ie exactly the same behaviour as for a non-compilation artist search)
Steven to discover if this is related/duplicate of a similar bug.
Any news, Steven?
Yea, I think this is the exact issue described in bug 4629 and I am marking as such. If this issue remains after bug 4629 is closed please reopen. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4629 ***
Closing resolved bugs - if you feel this bug still exists please first re-test with the latest SW/FW version. If you are able to reproduce then feel free to reopen and attach new logs / steps to reproduce.