Hi, pretty late, but only now I re-visited this group :-) my personal feeling is that this behavior is hard-coded in the program somewhere; because it does not appear to be any sort of option in the preferences related to this; the only option, partially related to the Album Artist tag is in the last.fm branch in the preferences, where you may activate the option to use Album Artist instead of the main Artist tag when scrobbling to last.fm
I've noticed other behavior very related to the one you mentioned in your post: if you do *not* have an Album tag at all (meaning it is empty), Clementine will display as album the current folder name where the file is located ! And this is particularly bad to the same relation with last.fm I've mentioned above (it will scrobble a bad name for the album if you let it like this). This was not always like so ! My first use of Clementine, I remember that such files (that only have the title tag, or not even that) were displayed with the album empty, as it should be normal, at least from my point of view. Thus I feel that this behavior is encoded in the program as default behavior and is not something that could be changed in the preferences. P.S. I just checked this with Strawberry, which is the derivative program from Clementine (and it is mentioned in some other posts here in the group, in the more recent posts from this year), and which still keeps/uses that initial behavior I remember from Clementine in the "old days" : Strawberry displays an empty album tag if this is not present in the music file; this is also particular bad if even the title tag itself is missing: the program displays the full filename as title tag (I mean you see the filename.mp3 instead of the title --- this is particular bad in relation to the same last.fm I did mention above). And in strict relation to you question, Strawberry does not display anything in the Album Artist column if this tag is empty -- and this is also the normal behavior (at least for me, also). On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 3:55:03 PM UTC+2 André Blanquer wrote: > Hello to everyone. > > First of all, sorry for my limited English and French accent. > > I carefully tag my tracks with Metatogger. For each track I use ARTIST to > write the name of the artist(s) and ALBUMARTIST to write the names of the > orchestra and its conductor (I know, it's the other way around, but I > prefer it that way). > > However, in the main window display of CLEMENTINE, the tags displayed are > not what I expect. > > For example, I had tagged ARTIST with "Mouloudji" and deleted any value in > ALBUMARTIST because the name of the band didn't matter. > > CLEMENTINE shows "Mouloudji" for ARTIST, which is correct. > But the ARTISTLBUM also displays "Mouloudji", which I don't want. > > Suspecting CLEMENTINE to think it knows better than me what I want to see > displayed and to go look for it on Internet, I deactivated all the links > with the web in the preferences. No effet. > I have also disabled the Wi-Fi link. No effect. > > What did I not understand? > What should I do to correct this unwanted effect? > Thank you for reading. > Thanks to those who will try to help me. > > André > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clementine Music Player" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clementine-player+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/c4ff39a5-63f6-4890-bf80-2f81195d0edbn%40googlegroups.com.
