Mystery solved. I thought it was the Various album that was causing the
problem but it wasn't. It turns out that it's an album in Vorbis format
with imbedded tags. I don't see all those tags in LMS, in Tag, or
in mp3tag. I'm not sure how to actually view or edit those tags but I
think a simpler
Thanks all. I decided to start from basics so I stripped all the Stivell
albums out of my music folders and rescanned. And, lo! another album
showed up in the Various folder. Interestingly, this album doesn't have
Artist names tagged - they all just say "Various" and the artist names
are in the
This is a strange bug that has bothered me for many years but I never
bothered trying to sort it out until now. In my over 6,000 albums I have
only one artist whose name is "Alan" and that is "Alan Stivell", the
Celtic harpist. I am sorting non-Classical genre by artists' first names
so Alan
