Listing multidisc albums with different composers

[simoncn]

(14-08-2020 20:15)Uoppi Wrote:  In both cases, ALBUMARTIST is a single global value across the whole set (composer names separated by a semicolon).

foobar2000 uses a semicolon to indicate multiple values. Your use of a semicolon as this separator means you actually have multiple ALBUMARTIST tags in your files. MinimServer does not support multiple ALBUMARTIST values and resolves this conflict by ignoring the ALBUMARTIST tags and producing a warning message in the MinimServer log.

Because the ALBUMARTIST tags have been ignored, MinimServer falls back to ARTIST tags to identify disc boundaries. If all the artists on a disc are consistent, this disc is identified as an album. If the artists are not consistent, it appears that the disc is not identified as an album but is merged into the higher-level album set. I will investigate this behaviour in more detail (the code that does this is quite complex).

The solution for you is either to use some other separator character when tagging multiple composer names as the ALBUMARTIST value or to use a different tagging program that doesn't treat a semicolon specially when used in a tag value.

It is fine to have multiple values for ARTIST and most other tags, just not for ALBUMARTIST.