[SOLVED] Multiple Genres Bug?

[Atair]

Whether or not it's possible syntactically to have multiple values, I believe such tracks need to be cleaned so that they have a single AlbumArtist entry.

I think it would really be a nice feature to have multiple AlbumArtist values. For instance to find the album "Riding with the King" both under "Eric Clapton" and "B.B. King". Although it's ok for me to use the "... & ..." scheme.

As for using Album+AlbumArtist as an identifier, that seems common practice. While AlbumArtist isn't well defined, its dominant usage is a sorting key to get the album into the right "bin" (to use the analogy of a physical CD in a bricks-and-mortar store) where more than one artist is involved.

Moode uses the string Album@AlbumArtist as compound key. When AlbumArtist is missing, it is substituted with Artist. Artist exists in any case, either a value that was existent in the track or set to "Unknown" during setting up the Moode library.
If we would have an array of multiple AlbumArtists, for creating the compound key it would be sufficient to fetch the first AlbumArtist in order to make it unique.

Isn't this the issue for which Tim has accepted your proposed code patch? Am I missing something here?

No, this was for multiple genres.

It seems to me moOde already covers the case of no AlbumArtist entry when there is only a single Artist entry. Perhaps just choose the first Artist entry if there is more than one?

Currently Moode supports only on single Artist entry per track. If the track has more than one Artist, only the last value survives, because each new value coming in overwrites the previous one. (Same logic as it was for genres.)

There seems to be also one problematic situation: When none of the tracks of an album have the AlbumArtist set and each track has a different Artist, the album is split into many according to this logic. But I have not tested yet whether this really occurs.

Isn't metadata fun?

Could be  .

If Moode would support both multiple AlbumArtists and multiple Artists, the first should be exclusively used for the Artist column in the tag view, while the latter should only be visible in the track details.