Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[paultaylor]

(21-11-2023 17:45)simoncn Wrote:  If an album has multiple values for the album_artists tag, this setting should produce warning messages in the MinimServer log when you rescan the album. These messages should tell you that the AlbumArtist values for the album have been ignored.

Okay, but that doesnt help me. I was really hoping you would clarify previous conflicting statements. I will restate the question in the hope of a definitive answer

The Album_artists stores each album artists as a separate field my understanding is if I add

indexTags:Album_artists:Album Artists
tagValue:Album_Artists.default={AlbumArtist}


that will have no effect on how album are grouped. But if do the following instead


aliasTags:Album_Artists:-AlbumArtist
indexTags:AlbumArtist:Album Artists

that will allow multiple values to be stored in the AlbumArtist field, and that can cause an issue for MinimServer in album identification because you said The AlbumArtist index (corresponding to AlbumArtist and/or Album Artist tags in the files) requires a single value that is consistent across all tracks of an album ?

If there is no problem with either approach please explain what you meant by The AlbumArtist index (corresponding to AlbumArtist and/or Album Artist tags in the files) requires a single value that is consistent across all tracks of an album ?