[black_eagle]

2) I took my journey folder cleared all of MY tags and used MB picard to tag everything... with no modifications loaded it into kodi, ended up with two journey nodes one with a single album, all other 20 or so in the other node.... MBs tags id3 fields album artist with Journey but artist with Journey, Tron, Journey vs. Rastaliens (the "vs." happens with a few other also), and a Journey vs. Alexampt & Mononegro. i have tried to change the tag to Journey only (no change in the kodi library).

Since this is comming from unadulterated Picard tagging let's see what could be tripping up Kodi.

a) With the 2 entries for "Journey" in the artists node, which album is the one on its own?

b) I had not encountered " vs. " in Musicbrainz release artists before. Recent Picard should also be adding an ARTISTS (note the s) tag as a hint what the artist names are that go with the mbid tags. It makes it clear whether "Journey vs. Alexampt & Mononegro" is 1, 2 or 3 artists etc., some artist names have punctuation in them, other times it is just how the album credits were written and there are several individual artist involved. Additionally v17 now has the option of multiple artist separators, so " vs. " could be added as a known separator.

I don't think b) is causing a), but which album are these on so I can check out what Picard is doing?

Been following this and I have most if not all of Journey's albums so I did a similar thing - scanned in all my stuff to a Krypton nightly, removed all tags on Journey albums, re-tagged all the albums with Picard and then scanned them into Kodi with debug turned on.

I only get the one artist listed, with all the albums correctly listed under it. I have the debug log of the scan if needed and I can dump my tags for any of the albums that I have if it'll help.

Settings for scan were :-

Tag reading: Enabled
Search for thumbnails on remote shares: enabled

All other settings : disabled
Default providers - Universal artist & album scrapers V3.7.0 & 2.7.0 respectively.

In case @DaveBlake needs the Kodi version I used -

Code:

Kodi (17.0-ALPHA2 Git:2016-05-26-ecda58a). Platform: Linux x86 64-bit
NOTICE: Using Debug Kodi x64 build
NOTICE: Kodi compiled May 26 2016 by GCC 4.8.4 for Linux x86 64-bit version 3.13.11 (199947)