2014-03-23, 18:28
Hi lukemb,
All my music has been tagged with MP3Tag and has all the artwork etc.
I have given mediabrowser server with XBMC metadata Saver Plugin a try with a small test sample of my music collection. All works very well except for one thing for me. I have XBMC set to NOT include artists who appear only only compilations.
![Full sized picture Image](http://www.ultraimg.com/images/T2MH0.jpg)
Everything looks fine when viewing the Mediabrowser database in firefox. But the nfo file generated for albums seems to be wrong when scanned into XBMC. When I view Artists in XBMC I see compilation artists which should not be there.
So I ran a test and scanned the music in without any nfo's and then exported it to compare them. From what I could tell it looked as though Mediabrowser ignores the Album Artist Tag and just includes all of the artists. More specifically if is missing this tag...
<albumArtistCredits>
<artist>Artist Name Here</artist>
<musicBrainzArtistID></musicBrainzArtistID>
<joinphrase></joinphrase>
<featuring>Artist Name Here</featuring>
</albumArtistCredits>
Currently MediaBrowser3 uses this tag...
<artist clear=true>Artist Name Here</artist>
<artist>Artist Name 2</artist>
<artist>Artist Name 3</artist>
<artist>Artist Name 4</artist>
<artist>Artist Name 5</artist>
Which forces XBMC to see all the artists. I hope that makes sense. Please can you fix it? I would love to start using your software to manage my music as there is currently no other stand alone app that does.
On a side note I am surprised nobody else has mentioned this. Maybe its me doing something wrong
All my music has been tagged with MP3Tag and has all the artwork etc.
I have given mediabrowser server with XBMC metadata Saver Plugin a try with a small test sample of my music collection. All works very well except for one thing for me. I have XBMC set to NOT include artists who appear only only compilations.
![Full sized picture Image](http://www.ultraimg.com/images/T2MH0.jpg)
Everything looks fine when viewing the Mediabrowser database in firefox. But the nfo file generated for albums seems to be wrong when scanned into XBMC. When I view Artists in XBMC I see compilation artists which should not be there.
So I ran a test and scanned the music in without any nfo's and then exported it to compare them. From what I could tell it looked as though Mediabrowser ignores the Album Artist Tag and just includes all of the artists. More specifically if is missing this tag...
<albumArtistCredits>
<artist>Artist Name Here</artist>
<musicBrainzArtistID></musicBrainzArtistID>
<joinphrase></joinphrase>
<featuring>Artist Name Here</featuring>
</albumArtistCredits>
Currently MediaBrowser3 uses this tag...
<artist clear=true>Artist Name Here</artist>
<artist>Artist Name 2</artist>
<artist>Artist Name 3</artist>
<artist>Artist Name 4</artist>
<artist>Artist Name 5</artist>
Which forces XBMC to see all the artists. I hope that makes sense. Please can you fix it? I would love to start using your software to manage my music as there is currently no other stand alone app that does.
On a side note I am surprised nobody else has mentioned this. Maybe its me doing something wrong
![Confused Confused](https://forum.kodi.tv/images/smilies/confused.png)