2010-05-15, 06:19
I just changed the "Album Artist" field for all my singles from "Various Artists" to "Singles"
(I did this so there would be an entry for "Singles" at the artist level when I browsed each genre).
However, this brought some anomalies with the genres, seemingly only with long tag names.
Most of the items show up correctly under each genre, but the singles with genre tag "pop;electronic" only show up under the pop genre. There is no entry for an artist called "singles" when i browse the "electronic" genre. (Even though their info screen still lists both genres correctly).
Same story with "pop;international", however "pop;rock" works fine - I see an artist called "singles" in both the pop and rock genre views.
Reverting to tagging all the singles with album artist "Various Artists" does fix the problem. However I then do not see a "singles" entry at artist level. (Only under artist "various artists").
Hope that makes sense - If ness I can add a debug log of the library updating after i change the album artist tag back to "singles".
Thanks for any thoughts / suggestions
---edit: BTW albums seem to have no problem with the same genre combinations. The problem only seems to occur when album field is blank and artist is NOT "Various Artists".
(I did this so there would be an entry for "Singles" at the artist level when I browsed each genre).
However, this brought some anomalies with the genres, seemingly only with long tag names.
Most of the items show up correctly under each genre, but the singles with genre tag "pop;electronic" only show up under the pop genre. There is no entry for an artist called "singles" when i browse the "electronic" genre. (Even though their info screen still lists both genres correctly).
Same story with "pop;international", however "pop;rock" works fine - I see an artist called "singles" in both the pop and rock genre views.
Reverting to tagging all the singles with album artist "Various Artists" does fix the problem. However I then do not see a "singles" entry at artist level. (Only under artist "various artists").
Hope that makes sense - If ness I can add a debug log of the library updating after i change the album artist tag back to "singles".
Thanks for any thoughts / suggestions
---edit: BTW albums seem to have no problem with the same genre combinations. The problem only seems to occur when album field is blank and artist is NOT "Various Artists".