(2024-01-23, 08:21)black_eagle Wrote: (2024-01-23, 03:24)Bach565 Wrote: Does Kodi not know what a composer is?
Yes, it does. But as usual with music stuff, it heavily depends upon your tagging. See the section "Tags Kodi reads" on this page.
I think I'm learning a few things here. First, my SACD recordings don't appear to have correct tags in a lot of cases, so that's messing me up. But even for recordings where I know the tags are right, I'm not seeing them when browsing through an album, as here:
In this case, I know who wrote the piece, since it's all Mussourgsky. But it's very confusing in cases like this:
There are so many "Trumpet Tunes" that I have no idea who wrote this one. I'd like to see that listed on the left, but I don't know how to change that.
If I look at the information page for an individual track, then I do see the composer listed:
Quote:You can also look under Music / Roles and find composers, Lyricists, Arrangers etc all listed there. Opening composers will list all the composers that are in your tags and opening a composer in that list will give you a list of albums that they are a composer on, and opening an album will give you the tracks that they composed. This is assuming your tags are correct of course.
Ah! I didn't know that composers could be found under "Roles." That's very helpful. Now I'm going to have to figure out why some composers are showing up multiple times in the list. I suspect some characters look the same but are actually different UTF-8 code points, or something like that.
Thanks very much for your help. I'm at least making some progress here!