Albums with multiple album artists are not shown when browsing e.g. by album artists

[Oliviander]

(17-11-2012 16:49)simoncn Wrote:  

(17-11-2012 15:41)zebra Wrote:  When I browse my collection by album artist (using BubbleUPnP) albums that have more than one album artist are not shown.

But when using the default view for all albums for browsing these albums are shown.

My configuration of MinimServer is attached as well as the tagging data from a title of an album that has more than one album artist.

MinimServer doesn't allow multiple values for the AlbumArtist tag. If you select 'Show log' from MinimWatch, you'll see a number of warning messages telling you that these conflicting AlbumArtist tags have been ignored. The tracks have been added to your library, but without any AlbumArtist tags.

As an alternative, you can use multiple values for the Artist tag, or you can create a new custom tag (such as "Main Artist") and use multiple values for this tag.

The AlbumArtist tag is limited to a single value because this tag represents the overall artist for the whole album. This "album artist" value is used in various contexts for grouping tracks belonging to the same album. This is consistent with how other servers and control points treat the AlbumArtist tag.

As I just stumbled upon that very problem, when setting up minimserver for the first time.
I would gladly read in the Users Manual a chapter about all the Tags that have a special use or special Restricitions.
(I mean Tags that are used even if not appearing in the index list)

I have a large flac collection and tagged it completely with multiple
albumartists when applicable (Works well with asset upnp and lies within the Vorbis Comments Stadard).

As the Error still occurs when i delete the albumartist tag from the index list, I would like to know the consequences for not updating this
tag to the expected format.

Obviously I can access the albums as a whole and therefore
I can not see the restricitons you mentioned.

So I'm not sure whether I should retag my whole collection,
or just leave the AlbumArtist tag exluded from the index list ?