"Unknown" Album Artist

[simoncn]

(12-02-2012 17:13)tylerdurden Wrote:  Hi!
First of all, thanks so much for your great effort in writing this server program!
I love it a lot already as I have tried so many different servers and this one already look promising and easy/fast to use!
However, I have problems regarding some albums as they are grouped into "Unknown" and not the Album Artist I tagged.
I use a mac mini and iTunes to manage my music library and run minimserver mac version (thanks for the effort again!), with "Tuneup" (another software) to help me to do the tagging jobs.
I double checked that those albums are tagged with my desired "Album Artist" but still they are grouped to "Unknown" under album artist view in Kinsky iPad.
May I know what are the possible causes such that I can fix the problem and enjoy the use of minimserver even more?

Thanks for your kind words!

This problem is probably caused by a conflict in your AlbumArtist or Album Artist tag settings. You can find out if there is a conflict by looking at the minimserver.log file, which is in the top-level directory of the MinimServer 0.21 application package. To see this file, open the Applications folder in Finder, select MinimServer 0.21, then choose Show Package Contents from the Task menu. You can open minimserver.log with Console or TextEdit to view it.

In this log file you might see messages that look like the following:

Warning: conflicting ALBUMARTIST tags ignored for album <albumTitle>
conflicting values: <value1>, <value2>

This is telling you that one or more of the tracks for album <albumTitle> has an AlbumArtist (or Album Artist) tag of <value1>, and another track on the same album has an AlbumArtist (or Album Artist) tag of <value2>. When there is a conflict like this, MinimServer ignores the AlbumArtist (or Album Artist) tags for the album and puts it in the [unknown] section.

This problem is usually caused by an AlbumArtist tag being set to one value and an Album Artist tag being set to another value. MinimServer treats AlbumArtist and Album Artist tags as equivalent, which can cause conflicts if you have a mixture of these tags. Some tag editors only show AlbumArtist values and don't show Album Artist values, which can make it hard to see what's causing the conflict.