Bugzilla – Bug 8927
One-Hit wonder Artists getting listed under Various Artists>No Album
Last modified: 2011-11-06 23:23:45 UTC
MP3 Tracks with no album tag set ned by finishing up on Various Artists > No Album instead of Artist Name > No Album... it wouldn't be a major issue except for the fact that since artists don't have albums, they simply disappear from the Artists Lists due to "Group compilation albums together". I'm not sure when this change was inserted but in the past (7.0?) this used to work fine. with each artist being listed under it's own name instead of only the "Various Artists>No Album".
Andre: Please don't pre-assign priority or severity. Can you please attach 1 example of a track doing this behavior, we will look into it right away.
Andre: Can you upload a sample track?
Created attachment 3786 [details] music one
Created attachment 3787 [details] music two
sorry for the delay folks. The issue as you can see is that although the songs are tagged with a single artist, they finish up at the Various Artists folder under No Album. The No Album is created for obvious reasons (I usually cut album TAGS out of one-hit wonders/singles or lost tracks) but why they finish up on Various Artists is a mystery for me. Track 3 is a work around for the issue. I just added a N/A as album so the band could be listed out of the Various Artists/No Album
Created attachment 3788 [details] music three
This sounds like the expected behavior to me. Many users would be upset if all those artists ended up in the artist list. The 'No Album' is used as a catch-all for any tracks without an album name. All those single tracks are seen as members of this catch-all album and the different artists lead SqueezeCenter to conclude that the album is a compilation. You might try: - Not using the 'group compilation albums' option. Of course you'll then have artists from all legitimate compilations in your artist list. - Giving all of these tracks some arbitrary album name, such as "Single Tracks". I believe that, so long as the files are not all in the same folder, the albums would be seen as individual albums and as non-compilations. Then the artists should appear. - Setting a tag of COMPILATION=0 on each of these tracks.
Changing target to 8 and adding keyword so this will be considered for new schema.
but why is SBS classifying these tracks as VA tracks? simply b/c they don't have an album tag? are they in the same directory?
Andre, are you there? do you put all these files by differing artists in the same folder?
(In reply to comment #10) > Andre, are you there? do you put all these files by differing artists in the > same folder? yes. All in the same Misc folder.
thats the problem then. put them all in ..\artist\whatever\ folders and your issue should be solved. don't put any two differing artists with no album tag in the same folder.
(In reply to comment #12) > thats the problem then. put them all in ..\artist\whatever\ folders and your > issue should be solved. don't put any two differing artists with no album tag > in the same folder. It is a valid workaround but would that be a solution? I doubt that.
but it is the only solution you're likely to get. when you put a bunch of differing artists into one folder all with no album tags, thats the same to SBS as if they all had the same album tag, and so SBS uses the VA auto-detect logic to call it a single VA album. but thanks to the "greatest hits logic" if you put each of these into their own folders, they will get treated as separate entries, ie. not the same VA album as SBS currently sees it. there is no way the devs are going to craft special handling or logic for this niche scenario, and i don't think they should, esp since you don't need to put all these files in one folder. what jim said in comment 7 applies too. i don't know what you think the "solution" should be, but i can almost guarantee the des won't craft a special handling case for this.
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