[khaoohs]

I'm running a recent version from GIT (12.0-ALPHA4 Git:20120712-aa67151) on Ubuntu 10.04. I've wiped out my music DB and let XBMC rescan my music collection. Now after the rescan, when I go into Album view in the Library, I can see all my albums, but not every album has an artist listed next to it. I do have all my music tagged. It seems that the album view is only displaying the artist if the 'album_artist' field is populated, even when the 'artist' field is populated. This is different from older versions of XBMC because album view always listed the artists before I wiped the DB.

Second problem is that in the official XBMC android remote, albums are no longer listed, I get a 'no albums found' message. Artists are listed, but when i select an artist, same message 'no albums found'.

I can't say when this change took place, but I know there have been recent changes to the music DB.

[MassIV]

Just maybe a quick thing you can do.
Grab a music tag program and let it do a batch copy of "artist tag" into "album artist tag", on the ones that have none.

[leepenny]

Just maybe a quick thing you can do.
Grab a music tag program and let it do a batch copy of "artist tag" into "album artist tag", on the ones that have none.

be careful this wont work for compilation albums

[jmarshall]

This should not be happening at all. My music has scanned in just fine using only the artist tag.

You should be able to reproduce using just 1 or 2 music files in a single folder from the same album/artist. Scan them in, check that they don't set up correctly. If that's the case, post the files so we can reproduce.

[Martijn]

Did had the same issue. I fixed it by filling in the album artist.
This was some nightlies ago

[jmarshall]

That's not a fix. Again, I need samples if I'm going to be able to fix anything that needs fixing. All my music scans just fine with no album artist tags at all.

[Martijn]

Fixed:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/caf9...83654b761d