2014-02-01, 04:39
So based on this post by JMarshall http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1609696 I was experimenting with nightly 20140121.
I have an album with album artist "Various Artists" (but that isn't significant to the observation) and songs have 1 or more artists assigned.
This concerns songs with more than 1 artist. What I found is that if there is one song artist and also MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID for that artist will scan properly. Now if there is more than one song artist, and still a single MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID only the first artist will be scanned. The second and further are ignored.
So I then tested but this time I included MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID for all artists on the song. This time I did get all artists scanned, but it would only use the first artist name (repeated as many times as there are MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID tags) unless the "override tag" setting is used. Then it showed all artists (for which MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID is provided). Again if there are 3 artists and 2 MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID you only get two artists scanned.
ISTM that if there are more song artists than MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID tags that all artists from the Artist tag(s) should be scanned to the database. Obviously there is a problem of relating the Artist tag to the MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID tag (could be by order in the file but I can see that's problematic).
scott s.
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I have an album with album artist "Various Artists" (but that isn't significant to the observation) and songs have 1 or more artists assigned.
This concerns songs with more than 1 artist. What I found is that if there is one song artist and also MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID for that artist will scan properly. Now if there is more than one song artist, and still a single MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID only the first artist will be scanned. The second and further are ignored.
So I then tested but this time I included MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID for all artists on the song. This time I did get all artists scanned, but it would only use the first artist name (repeated as many times as there are MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID tags) unless the "override tag" setting is used. Then it showed all artists (for which MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID is provided). Again if there are 3 artists and 2 MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID you only get two artists scanned.
ISTM that if there are more song artists than MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID tags that all artists from the Artist tag(s) should be scanned to the database. Obviously there is a problem of relating the Artist tag to the MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID tag (could be by order in the file but I can see that's problematic).
scott s.
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