[Kodi 17 Krypton] Single Artist with ":" character being incorrectly displayed

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[Kodi 17 Krypton] Single Artist with ":" character being incorrectly displayed - onewaytrigger - 2017-03-01

This issue doesn't occurs on Kodi 16.
The particular album artist is 2:54. My guess is that Kodi 17 now thinks that ":" on album artist field means 2 separated artists.

This issue is easy to reproduce, just add ":" in album artist field and Kodi will disply as two.
I tried to disable "Show song and album artists" to no avail. I've been experienced it since very early releases of Kodi 17, could it be fixed or is there a workaround other than modify the band' name?

RE: [Kodi 17 Krypton] Single Artist with ":" character being incorrectly displayed - jjd-uk - 2017-03-01

Moving this across to the Music section where there's a better chance you'll get an answer.

RE: [Kodi 17 Krypton] Single Artist with ":" character being incorrectly dis... - scott967 - 2017-03-01

(2017-03-01, 19:42)onewaytrigger Wrote: This issue doesn't occurs on Kodi 16.

This issue is easy to reproduce, just add ":" in album artist field and Kodi will disply as two.
I tried to disable "Show song and album artists" to no avail. I've been experienced it since very early releases of Kodi 17, could it be fixed or is there a workaround other than modify the band' name?

Create or edit advancedsettings (wiki) xml file per this:

Quote:Well well, an artist name with a colon in it! The default multiple artist name separators added in 17 include ":", but it is user configurable.

The default for artist names in addition to " / " is any of ";", ":", "|", " feat. ", " ft. " is taken as a separator. However this can be replaced by entries in advancedsettings.xml like this

Code:
<advancedsettings>
<musiclibrary>
<artistseparators>
<separator> feat. </separator>
<separator> Feat. </separator>
<separator> with </separator>
<separator>;</separator>
<separator> ft. </separator>
<separator> Ft. </separator>
</artistseparators>
</musiclibrary>
</advancedsettings>

Which has " with " as a separator because I know none of my individual artists have that in their name while I have tracks tagged with artist1 with artist2, and no ":". These settings replace the default values entirely.

You might need to remove the files with that artist from your music source folder tree, do an update (to clean that bad entries out), then replace the files and run scan/update again after editing your advancedsettings.

scott s.
.

RE: [Kodi 17 Krypton] Single Artist with ":" character being incorrectly dis... - onewaytrigger - 2017-03-01

(2017-03-01, 23:03)scott967 Wrote:
(2017-03-01, 19:42)onewaytrigger Wrote: This issue doesn't occurs on Kodi 16.

This issue is easy to reproduce, just add ":" in album artist field and Kodi will disply as two.
I tried to disable "Show song and album artists" to no avail. I've been experienced it since very early releases of Kodi 17, could it be fixed or is there a workaround other than modify the band' name?

Create or edit advancedsettings (wiki) xml file per this:

Quote:Well well, an artist name with a colon in it! The default multiple artist name separators added in 17 include ":", but it is user configurable.

The default for artist names in addition to " / " is any of ";", ":", "|", " feat. ", " ft. " is taken as a separator. However this can be replaced by entries in advancedsettings.xml like this

Code:
<advancedsettings>
<musiclibrary>
<artistseparators>
<separator> feat. </separator>
<separator> Feat. </separator>
<separator> with </separator>
<separator>;</separator>
<separator> ft. </separator>
<separator> Ft. </separator>
</artistseparators>
</musiclibrary>
</advancedsettings>

Which has " with " as a separator because I know none of my individual artists have that in their name while I have tracks tagged with artist1 with artist2, and no ":". These settings replace the default values entirely.

You might need to remove the files with that artist from your music source folder tree, do an update (to clean that bad entries out, then replace the files and run scan/update again after editing your advancedsettings.

scott s.
.

Thanks! I'll have a look on that

RE: [Kodi 17 Krypton] Single Artist with ":" character being incorrectly displayed - DaveBlake - 2017-03-02

Oh boy, colon in an artist name, I so hate punctuation in names. But yes the above advice from Scott will deal with it. It justifies why I made it user coinfigurable - some will have ":" as a separator while others will have artists with ":" in the name.

Otherwise if it was tagged with Musicbrainz id tags Kodi would handle it too.

RE: [Kodi 17 Krypton] Single Artist with ":" character being incorrectly displayed - HiassofT - 2017-03-19

I was caught by this too, wondering why "Welle: Erdball" no longer showed up in the music library - instead I had 2 entries "Welle" and "Erdball" with was rather unexpected. IMHO the default setting for artistseparator is too agressive.

Code:
$ mid3v2 -l 04\ Starfighter\ F-104G.mp3

IDv2 tag info for 04 Starfighter F-104G.mp3:

TALB=Die Wunderwelt der Technik

TCON=Electronic

TDRC=2002

TIT2=Starfighter F-104G

TPE1=Welle: Erdball

TRCK=4

BTW: It would be nice if this feature could be documented, artistseparator isn't listed in http://kodi.wiki/view/advancedsettings.xml and it took me quite a while to figure it out what was happening here.

so long,

Hias

RE: [Kodi 17 Krypton] Single Artist with ":" character being incorrectly displayed - DaveBlake - 2017-03-19

PR raised to remove ":" and "|" as default artist separators. See https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/11873

Of course users can still configure then as separators if they need to.