Question about the licence model and browsing through music

[Music-Guy]

(08-07-2022 10:16)simoncn Wrote:  It doesn't matter whether files are tagged with TCMP or TXXX:Compilation. MinimServer maps both of these to COMPILATION.

The presence/absence/value of COMPILATION makes no difference to which artists are displayed. COMPILATION is just a tag that can appear in the index.

The "problem" with some artists not appearing in the index appears to be caused by using the Artist index. As I have tried to explain in previous posts, this index does not include Artist values for files that have an AlbumArtist tag (including files with COMPILATION=1 and ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists).

Unfortunately, I cannot see any pattern or logic behind this.

Of the files that have COMPILATION=1 and ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists, ALL also have a tag ARTIST=[insert_artist_here].
But still, some of the artists are shown in the artist index, and some are not.

Also, I can't see any other difference in the files that are displayed and those that are not.

ALL other audio files also have the tag ARTIST=[insert_artist_here]. Only the tags COMPILATION and ALBUMARTIST are not present.
However, the artists of these files are displayed correctly without exception.