Bug 5405 - Artists with single tracks show up in artist list
: Artists with single tracks show up in artist list
Status: NEW
Product: Logitech Media Server
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Interface
: 6.5.4
: PC Ubuntu Linux
: -- enhancement (vote)
: Future
Assigned To: Unassigned bug - please assign me!
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Reported: 2007-09-06 04:03 UTC by Jesper Holmberg
Modified: 2011-11-06 23:24 UTC (History)
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Description Jesper Holmberg 2007-09-06 04:03:48 UTC
To avoid artists with only one or a few tracks to show up in the artist listings, we have the "Group compilation albums together" option. I have found that there's another way such single-song artists can show up in the artist listing. Consider an album witht the following tags:

Album: Best of Artist A

Track:     Artist:
------     -------
Track01    Artist A
Track02    Artist A
Track03    Artist A & Artist B
Track04    Artist A
Track05    Artist A
...

Now, clearly the artist of this hypothetical album is "Artist A", and it is not a compilation album. To make sure that SS not treat it as a compilation (listing it under "Various Artists"), I have tagged the (flac) files with "ALBUMARTIST = Artist A" and "COMPILATION = 0".

Here's the problem: doing this will make "Artist A & Artist B" show up in the artist listing, which is not good. It would be better if this album was treated in a similar way compilations are, i.e. the single track artists should not show up in artist listings.
Comment 1 KDF 2007-09-06 08:25:38 UTC
one way to accomplish this would be to nix the multiple artists and simply use (feat. x) or similar in the title.
Comment 2 Jim McAtee 2007-09-06 13:14:10 UTC
I believe this is a duplicate of bug 5108.  Yes, it's broken.  The problem is that these track-only artists are only suppressed from the artists list if they appear on compilation albums, but not non-compilations.
Comment 3 KDF 2007-09-06 13:25:16 UTC
neither are bugs, of course, since there is no spec to specifically block single-track artists from the list outside of the case for compilations (hence the setting).  Both are custom behaviour requests which may or may not be compatible.
Comment 4 Alan Young 2011-11-06 23:24:41 UTC
Unassigned bugs cannot have a priority.