(2017-09-06, 17:05)JanneT Wrote: A question about Artist sort names. When I browse through the artists, approx. 5% of the artists are not sorted correctly. The strange thing is that when browse through albums, sorted by artist, those 5% are sorted correctly.
Has anybody seen this behavior?
(2017-09-06, 18:58)DaveBlake Wrote:(2017-09-06, 17:05)JanneT Wrote: A question about Artist sort names. When I browse through the artists, approx. 5% of the artists are not sorted correctly. The strange thing is that when browse through albums, sorted by artist, those 5% are sorted correctly.If you could upload your MusicXX.db file somewhere and post or PM me a link, so that I can download and examine it in more detail that would be great.
Has anybody seen this behavior?
Oh and any example artists where you have notice this behaviour. Thanks
if (!tag.GetMusicBrainzAlbumID().empty())
{
VECALBUMS::iterator it;
for (it = albums.begin(); it != albums.end(); ++it)
if (it->strMusicBrainzAlbumID == tag.GetMusicBrainzAlbumID())
break;
if (it == albums.end())
{
CAlbum album(*items[i]);
album.songs.push_back(song);
albums.push_back(album);
}
else
it->songs.push_back(song);
/* Quick and dirty fix */
} else if (!tag.GetAlbum().empty())
{
VECALBUMS::iterator it;
for (it = albums.begin(); it != albums.end(); ++it)
if (it->strAlbum == tag.GetAlbum())
break;
if (it == albums.end())
{
CAlbum album(*items[i]);
album.songs.push_back(song);
albums.push_back(album);
}
}
else
songsByAlbumNames[tag.GetAlbum()].push_back(song);
}
Quote:I found out that in order to get the Album Artist Sort order correct in the database, you have to have the MusicBrainzAlbumID tag set for every album. This works even if the tag "value" is faked. Is this the intended behavior?That makes no sense to me either. I have over 500 albums without mbids, and the artist sort names works absolutely fine. Nor do I see how changes to MusicInfoScanner can help, although I do appreciate you being enthusiastic/frustrated enough to look at and modify code.
(2017-10-26, 14:29)DaveBlake Wrote: Janne, sorry for not responding sooner, afriad I lost sight of this issue so split into a thread of it's own. I did receive your data, but could not see anything unusual.
Quote:I found out that in order to get the Album Artist Sort order correct in the database, you have to have the MusicBrainzAlbumID tag set for every album. This works even if the tag "value" is faked. Is this the intended behavior?That makes no sense to me either. I have over 500 albums without mbids, and the artist sort names works absolutely fine. Nor do I see how changes to MusicInfoScanner can help, although I do appreciate you being enthusiastic/frustrated enough to look at and modify code.
Can we roll back to basics, and I will try to be more attentive.
I suspect that your issue is related in some way to the tagging itself, many things come down to that. Either faulty tagging, or some combination that my implementation has not accounted for (or both). There are some hints in the data entries for the example artists you mentioned that are not sorting.
Ale Möller
There are two artists like this a) Ale Moller (no acents) that does not have a sort name and b) Ale Möller Band that does "Möller, Ale, Band".
There are songs from 2 albums, with "Ale Möller Band" as the song artist, and "Möller, Ale, Band" as sortname.
These albums - "Bodjal" and "Djef Djel" - have "Ale Moller" as the album artist. These do have "Moller, Ale" as sort name.
So why didn't "Moller, Ale" propagate to the artist entry?
Alexis Korner
There are two similar artists a) Alexis Korner that does not have a sort name and b) Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated that does.
There are songs from 3 albums, with "Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated" as the song artist, and "Korner's, Alexis Blues Incorporated" as sortname.
These albums have "Alexis Korner" as the album artist. These do have "Korner, Alexis" as sort name.
So why didn't "Korner, Alexis" propagate to the artist entry?
Others - Astor Piazzolla, Ben E. King, Brian Auger, Brian Blade and 25-30 - have a similar pattern.
Can you tell me how say files from "Bodjal" are tagged, specifically the ALBUMARTIST, ALBUMARTISTS, ALBUMARTISTSORT, ARTIST, ARTISTS and ARTISTSORT tags.
(2017-10-26, 16:59)JanneT Wrote: I changed the ARTIST tags for the Ale Möller albums from "Ale Möller Band" to "Ale Möller" and now it's OK.
Another observation: when I exit Kodi after the scanning, Kodi exits with segmentation fault.
(2017-10-26, 17:30)JanneT Wrote: Thinking about it I think all examples have different ALBUMARTIST and ARTIST tagsYes, produicng artists that are only album artists. I now understand the issue and the cause, so I can fix it.
(2017-10-26, 17:39)DaveBlake Wrote:(2017-10-26, 17:30)JanneT Wrote: Thinking about it I think all examples have different ALBUMARTIST and ARTIST tagsYes, produicng artists that are only album artists. I now understand the issue and the cause, so I can fix it.
I will post here when I have a test build with the fix. So if you can wait, and not re-tag, it would make a good test that I have solved it.
