Wrong artist displaying

[sflaor]

(19-04-2017 17:43)simoncn Wrote:  

(19-04-2017 13:15)sflaor Wrote:  One more thing concerning this playlist: It's a .m3u that just contains a subset of what's in [Items]. I haven't bothered clearing Album Artist for any of the tracks that aren't referenced in the .m3u. Could that make a difference?

Yes, this could make a difference and it could explain the problem you are seeing. When you reference an item using a playlist, MinimServer uses all the metadata information for that item. If the item is part of an album and any other track in the same album has an AlbumArtist tag, the item will have this album artist as part of its metadata.

MinimServer matches tracks to albums in two different ways:
1) If the tracks are in the same folder, only the album name is used for matching
2) If the tracks are in different folders, the album name and the artist or album artist information is used for matching

Putting all this together, if you have tracks in the same folder from multiple albums named Greatest Hits, all these Greatest Hits tracks will be merged into a single album and the album artist for this merged album will be taken from any of the tracks that were merged and applied to all other tracks with the same album name.

The best way to prevent problems like this is to put each album into a separate folder.

Aha, then that's the issue. I assumed MinimServer's Artist and Album lists were being built from reading each track individually, but I suppose that could be a very long process.

In hindsight, I wish I would have created separate artist sub-folders for my tracks. With over 35,000 files, it's going to be quite the process to do it now. I found some software that looks like it'll handle the folder creation and file moving through a regex, but I've also written some custom utilities of my own that depend on the current structure.

Thank you very much for your help. You've done a terrific job with MinimServer and its supporting utilities!