I just discovered an odd behavior that is tag-related.    I have an
album (Legend by Bob Marley and the Wailers) where, when I "browse
artists" and select "Bob Marley" then "Legend", only 2 songs are
displayed.  When I "browse albums", however, I see all 14 songs.

When I browse the same album via the web interface (default skin), a
"browse artists" shows all 14 songs.

Looking at the tags, I discovered that the "artist" tag is set to "Bob
Marley" for 2 of the songs, and "Bob Marley and the Wailers" for the
remaining 12.   The "album artist" tag is set to "Bob Marley and the
Wailers" for all 14 songs.

The discrepancy in the artist likely explains why I only saw two songs
for Bob Marley / Legend when I did the "browse artists" ... but I would
have expected the web interface to exhibit the same behavior.  Further,
if I do a "browse artists" on "Bob Marley and the Wailers" and select
"Legend", I see all 14 songs.

It is acting as if the Squeezebox, during "browse artists", only
displays songs on a given album that are by the artist being searched
on, but the web interface will display all songs for an album that
contains a given artist.  Is this correct ... and is it intentional?

my files are WMA lossless, if that makes a difference (I recall reading
a forum entry about their being a bug in how SlimServer deals with the
"album artist" tag for WMA files, at least with Compilation albums ...
and have experienced this bug first-hand).

I realize that I can most likely fix this problem by cleaning up my
tags ... but since the Squeezebox and the web interface are exhibiting
different behaviors, I figured I should bring this subject up.


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Jon
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