[scott967]

That's right whitebelly, I had that option checked previously. It caused a massive number of one track artists to appear in the artists menu. Thanks for the suggestion jjd-uk, but I'm pretty sure that's not going to do what I want.

I've just noticed that all of my Triple J albums (Triple J is an Australian radio station) still appear where I want them under Triple J in the artists menu. None of the tracks have artist = Triple J but they still appear exactly where I want them. It looks like "Various" and "Various Artists" (anything starting with "Various"?) get shunted off to the hidden Compilations section. My Ahk-Toong Bay-Bi U2 tribute album comment earlier was a red herring. On closer inspection I found that album had "Various Artists" in its tags too. I had meant to change them to U2 but I never got around to it.

I'll see what happens if change the album artist tags to "Compilation Albums".

I am unable to duplicate your results with both 13.0 and 13.1RC1 using a fresh install and new database. I have albums tagged with Album Artist = Various Artists and also with Album Artist NULL in a test music source. I added the source and scanned it. After scanning both albums were added to library. In the music - artists view, there was an artist "Various Artists" and both albums were listed, one with artist Various Artists (this one had album artist tagged as Various Artists) and one with artist Various artists (small a like you expected, this was the one with the NULL Album Artist tag). In the music - compilations view, only the second album (NULL album artist tag, Various artists as artist) was listed. Track artists were shown in music - artists based on the "include artists who appear only in compilations" toggle.

I confirmed this looking at the database album table. This is using the local SQLite database, not a MySQL one. Note: in my case the Various Artists album was successfully scraped, but the NULL one (compilation) was not. Don't expect that to make a difference but just for completeness. Also I have the "override song tags with online information" toggle OFF (I did blow away my database and scan again with that setting ON and it didn't affect how the Various Artists were scanned, but I don't 100% trust that result as the option in my experience can have unexpected results).

So I think something else is going on with your setup.

scott s.
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