Multi Value Artist

[simoncn]

(13-04-2013 03:55)Mr.Bear Wrote:  You are correct... it is Artist/Album. Typo mistake on my end, sorry.

As an example, I am attaching 5 Kinsky screen capture files:

• One shows all sixteen tracks when looking at the Album view in Kinsky (Greatest Hits, Disc 1),
• One shows looking at the Artist/Album view in Kinsky (Neil Young / Greatest Hits, Disc 1),
• One shows looking at the Artist/Album view in Kinsky (Crazy Horse / Greatest Hits, Disc 1),
• One shows looking at the Artist/Album view in Kinsky (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young / Greatest Hits, Disc 1),
• One shows looking at the Artist/Album view in Kinsky (Stray Gators / Greatest Hits, Disc 1).

I used dBpoweramp to rip the CD and when a track is a multi-artist track, dBpoweramp appears to use a semicolon + space between the values… see attached PDF file. You will see that either Neil Young is the only artist listed or if it’s a multi-artist track, Neil Young is always the first artist listed before the additional artist.

With all this said, if I were to use MinimServer and looked at the Artist/Album view in Kinsky (Neil Young / Greatest Hits, Disc 1), would I see all 16 tracks?

Hope all of this makes sense :-)

It does makes sense, and MinimServer will do a much better job of handling this.

The values separated by semicolons are actually separate tags. For example, Cinnamon Girl has the tags

ARTIST=Neil Young
ARTIST=Crazy Horse

and dbPoweramp is showing this combination to you as

Neil Young; Crazy Horse

The problem is that when Twonky's Artist/Album view looks for tracks with the tag

ARTIST=Neil Young

it fails to find any tracks with the combination

ARTIST=Neil Young
ARTIST=Crazy Horse

and this causes the problems you are seeing.

MinimServer handles this correctly, so when you look for tracks by Neil Young, it will find tracks with ARTIST=Neil Young on its own and it will also find tracks with ARTIST=Neil Young in combination with other Artist values.