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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!!!!!!!

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

Is there going to be a fix for this?

donpearson wrote: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.

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

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

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

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.

I fixed this problem by moving over to MadSonic

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

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.

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!

Try madsonic!

Verstuurd vanaf mijn GT-I9300 met Tapatalk 4

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

Cheers