Display of AC/DC as AC, should be AC/DC

[Gijs Schubert]

(22-09-2018 06:09)timster Wrote:  It works on my minimserver using the linn app. Do you have the "album artist" tag set, or only the "artist" tags? Do you only see "AC" when browsing "album artists", or is it the same in "artists" as well? It could be that minimserver is stripping out the trailing slash if the album artist tag isn't set for displaying on the control point. The slash is a reserved character, so the directory name of the artist may be "AC" (when I convert from flac to mp3, the converter creates a directory for the artist stripping out the slash and anything after it). If minim does something similar, that may have something to do with it.

Thanks Timster.

Your remark on MP3 triggered me to test this. Indeed, the display of an artist's name is related to the file format of the track:

- The artist name of an album in FLAC format is displayed on the Naim app with the full name (e.g. AC/DC)
- The artist name of an album in MP3 format is displayed on the Naim app only with the characters before the slash /

I tested this by changing the artist name ABBA of two albums both to AB/BA (using my media editor JRiver MC). The MP3 album gets displayed under the artist name AB, the FLAC album under the artist name AB/BA. When I then view the MP3 Album, the Artist name under the album title is displayed as "AB, BA". Same story for AC/DC: The name under the MP3 album title in the album list is displayed as "AC, DC"

I then converted the MP3 files into FLAC with JRiver: test confirmed! The converted FLAC files are displayed with the correct artist name. The size of the converted files is a factor 5 larger though, so I'm not keen to convert my thousands of MP3 files...

Again, the default MediaServer installed on Synology NAS displays the artist names with a slash correctly, both of MP3 and FLAC files. So it is related to Minimserver.

So the slash / symbol seems to serve as tag separator for MP3 files, not for FLAC files.
How to display the artist name of an MP3 file as AC/DC as AC/DC, not as AC or AC, DC ? Maybe there is a setting to display reserved characters?

By the way I display the "artist" tag, not the "album artist" tag to avoid misery with multiple artists on an album.