I too am frustrated with how the software catalogues compilations. All of the proposed solutions above fail for me. I have run tests with only three albums in the database:
1. A solo album for which artist = albumartist = artistsort = trackartist = Brickman, Jim; 2. A compilation album with artist = actual artist including one track with artist = Brickman, Jim; and albumartist = artistsort = Windham Hill Artists. 3. To demonstrate a flaw on the order in which artists are listed, a solo album for which artist = albumartist = artistsort = trackartist = Cohn, Mark For all three albums, COMPILATION is not filled (have also tried 0 with no change in behavior). I am using Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.1 - 1516947667 @ Fri Jan 26 07:06:13 CUT 2018. My setting are the same as in Post #7 of this thread. (In particular, Group Compilation Albums Together is checked.) The resulting listings under Artist includes three Artists: Cohn, Marc One album with correct tracks Brickman, Jim Solo Album, with correct tracks Compilation Album, with the one track with Artist = Brickman, Jim Windham Hill Artists Compilation Album, with correct tracks Contrary to my wishes, the compilation album is listed under artist Brickman, Jim. Even worse, the artist Brickman, Jim is not in alphabetical order. Brickman, Jim is ordered just prior to the albumartist associated with the compilation album that includes a track with artist Brickman, Jim. (Ive tried more solo album artists, and this seems to be the rule.) My solution is very much suboptimal. I create a tag trackartist that has the correct artists, and I populate the artist field with the same entry as albumartist. I then pre-pend trackartist to the track title. I suggest that the software be modified so that albums for which there is an albumartist, the ARTIST tag varies, and does not have a tag COMPILATION = 1, be catalogued under the albumartist and that the squeezebox player display ARTIST-TITLE. The software should treat an album as a compilation only if there is a tag COMPILATION = 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106970
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