Bugzilla – Bug 5405
Artists with single tracks show up in artist list
Last modified: 2011-11-06 23:24:41 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.
one way to accomplish this would be to nix the multiple artists and simply use (feat. x) or similar in the title.
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.
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.
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