Artist or Artists for multiple Artists

[Alandbush]

(15-07-2019 23:27)Alandbush Wrote:  

(15-07-2019 19:06)sadsack5000 Wrote:  

(12-07-2019 09:07)simoncn Wrote:  Changing properties (such as aliasTags) does not require a rescan, only a MinimServer restart. A rescan is needed only when the library contents have been changed.

Try adding Artists to indexTags and restarting MinimServer. Do you see anything under the Artists index?

Ok i stripped everything out of indexTags and alphaGroup then reinserted just Artists. Nothing shows up i only see total number of albums and total number of tracks

A reasonable thing to do but the aliasTags has virtually renamed the Artists tag to Artist. So you need Artist in the indexTags.

Sorry, but I think I offered incorrect advice because of the following description.

The Artist index provides main artist information.
It contains AlbumArtist tag values for albums that have this tag and Artist tag values otherwise.

What you needed was ‘All Artists’ in the indexTags.

However, Simoncn subsequent suggestion is similar and worth doing because it should prove the validity of your Artists tag.