Hi, Im having major problems when the Compilation tag is set to 1 for
an album, LMS appears to go very wrong in handling Artist information.
For instance, consider a FLAC album where the files are all tagged with
Album Artist = Soundtrack, Artist = individual song artists, Compilation
= 1
I
flimflam wrote:
For instance, consider a FLAC album where the files are all tagged with
Album Artist = Soundtrack, Artist = individual song artists, Compilation
= 1
I have it in my head that the general advice has always been to code an
Album Artist -*or*- a Compilation but never both.
atrocity wrote:
I have it in my head that the general advice has always been to code an
Album Artist -*or*- a Compilation but never both.
If you want the compilation to appear under the pseudo-album artist
named 'Various Artists', that's true. However, it doesn't hurt anything
to do so and
Looks like I found this bug back in July, but never filed a bug report.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?101264-Separate-browse-menus-for-album-artists-in-7-8-1p=786680viewfull=1#post786680
Bug report filed. Add comments, if you like.
I'm getting a somewhat different results with Logitech Media Server
Version: 7.9.0 - 1426769055 @ Fri Mar 20 04:00:50 UTC 2015 .
On web-UI i see the intended artist .
On iPeng ( on iPad it actually also works fine to begin with except that
on the currently playing track I get the artist,
Damn. I just tested this and it sure is broken.
If I set COMPILATION=1 and ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists, it picks up
-that- album artist. But no others.
Closest bug that I can find on file in the bug database is this one, but
it's virtually the opposite of the behavior we're seeing, so it
