Windows Media Player - Multiple Artists

[simoncn]

(13-05-2024 16:24)CyberWilhelm Wrote:  This is really, really close! Various Artist albums are grouped exactly how I want now, thank you!

The only issue I'm observing now is multi-artist tracks on albums that aren't Various Artists albums. For example, a song that is a collaboration by artist A and artist B on artist A's album. "Artist A, Artist B" will now show up as a separate artist from either "Artist A" or "Artist B".

I checked how Windows Media Player Legacy handles this when reading an album directly from the filesystem (not using UPnP or MinimServer). The album is split as you have described. Adding an AlbumArtist tag for Artist A prevents this splitting and shows the list of contributing artists that you would expect.

As well as adding an AlbumArtist tag, you need to change the MinimServer settings to remove all references to MainArtist. Here are the settings you should use:

Code:

itemTags = Performer
tagValue = Performer.default={Artist}
tagFormat = Artist.displayFormat={}
upnpCustom = multiTag={Performer}, roleTags={AlbumArtist, Performer}

These settings also appear to work correctly for the Various Artists case.