Now playing says "Various Artists" instead of the artist.

[donpearson]

Now playing says "Various Artists" instead of the artist like it used to.

I'm running 4.7

Update, this is STILL not fixed in 4.8 as well!!!!!!!

[hakko]

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10236&start=15#p46008

[donpearson]

I'v gone back to 4.6 until all the problems are fixed.

[donpearson]

Is there going to be a fix for this?

[BKKKPewsey]

Is there going to be a fix for this?

From Sindre's TODO list

Reconsider album artist.

So its probable (I hope )
That is one reason why I am sticking with 4.6 as 4.7 will not scrobble correctly any compilation album
hence my playcounts do not get updated properly.

[donpearson]

It's STILL not fixed in 4.8!!!! come on...

[piethein]

At least searching for artists should deliver his/her/their 'Various Artists' tracks as well.

[kyomi7502]

I think I've fixed this with a musicbrainz tagging "script".. but that requires that you run your music through the tagger again.
Although, I do recommend re-tagging your music (if you use musicbrainz.org as a resource) every 6 months or so, so that you'll
get the updated information for that release (correct tags, cover art, etc..)

I'm at work atm, but once I get home I'll post the script I use for Picard tagger. It's not perfect but it's a good starting point

[kyomi7502]

Ok, when using this program: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard I've figure out a workaround/fix

Click Options -> Options -> File Naming and put this string in the "Name files like this" box

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$if($in(%albumartist%,Various Artists), %artist%, %albumartist%)/$if2($if(%date%,\($left(%date%,4)\)),$if(%originaldate%,\($left(%originaldate%,4)\))) %album%/$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),%discnumber%-,)$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title%

This will save files like this: (you can change the C:\Your Save location, in the "Move files to this directory when saving" box)


Now in Advanced -> Scripting (Still in Options) click the Tagger Script checkbox and type in:

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$if($in(%albumartist%,Various Artists), $unset(albumartist) $unset(albumartistsort) $set(albumartist, %artist%))

This basically removes "Various Artists" from the Album Artist and Album Artist Sort tag, replacing the Album Artist tag with the Artist tag.

[donpearson]

I fixed this problem by moving over to MadSonic

[kyomi7502]

Ahh, cool. Just to let anyone else know that the MusicBrainz Picard way does actually work.. I tested it on a few files successfully... if you want to go that route

[PRAEst76]

That really is just a workaround. I'd prefer to leave the albumartist as it is and just have Subsonic use the track artists tag as it should do.

[mbc0]

Is this going to be fixed? I do not want to re-tag my 20,000 MP3's that I have spent months tagging!

Album artist is displayed perfectly in all my players (WMP, XBMC, PowerAmp,) why not subsonic? I don't want to see "Various Artists" as my Artist!

[rmnma]

Try madsonic!

Verstuurd vanaf mijn GT-I9300 met Tapatalk 4

[mbc0]

I am running madsonic app on my Nexus 7 but still the same, do you mean madsonic server?

Cheers