Wrong artist displaying

[sflaor]

(19-04-2017 17:43)simoncn Wrote:  

(19-04-2017 13:15)sflaor Wrote:  One more thing concerning this playlist: It's a .m3u that just contains a subset of what's in [Items]. I haven't bothered clearing Album Artist for any of the tracks that aren't referenced in the .m3u. Could that make a difference?

Yes, this could make a difference and it could explain the problem you are seeing. When you reference an item using a playlist, MinimServer uses all the metadata information for that item. If the item is part of an album and any other track in the same album has an AlbumArtist tag, the item will have this album artist as part of its metadata.

MinimServer matches tracks to albums in two different ways:
1) If the tracks are in the same folder, only the album name is used for matching
2) If the tracks are in different folders, the album name and the artist or album artist information is used for matching

Putting all this together, if you have tracks in the same folder from multiple albums named Greatest Hits, all these Greatest Hits tracks will be merged into a single album and the album artist for this merged album will be taken from any of the tracks that were merged and applied to all other tracks with the same album name.

The best way to prevent problems like this is to put each album into a separate folder.

I just want to run a possible scenario by you that's different from mine, but would produce the same result.

Say I had a much smaller library (500 songs total), and most of it was comprised of "Greatest Hits" albums of various artists. I'd just want to make these songs available over my home network, so I'd export them to an appropriate network drive. I probably wouldn't consider sub-folders by artist because my song files are already tagged correctly.

Would it be possible for MinimServer to use album AND artist even if the music files are in the same folder?