Rastan 0 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Hi all, I originally posted this in the XBMC forum, but after realised this is more of a Media Browser issue. So i will repost it here, appologies if this is in the wrong part of the forum. Hi lukemb,All my music has been tagged with MP3Tag and has all the artwork etc.I have given mediabrowser server with XBMC metadata Saver Plugin a try with a small test sample of my music collection. All works very well except for one thing for me. I have XBMC set to NOT include artists who appear only only compilations.Everything looks fine when viewing the Mediabrowser database in firefox. But the nfo file generated for albums seems to be wrong when scanned into XBMC. When I view Artists in XBMC I see compilation artists which should not be there.So I ran a test and scanned the music in without any nfo's and then exported it to compare them. From what I could tell it looked as though Mediabrowser ignores the Album Artist Tag and just includes all of the artists. More specifically if is missing this tag... <albumArtistCredits> <artist>Artist Name Here</artist> <musicBrainzArtistID></musicBrainzArtistID> <joinphrase></joinphrase> <featuring>Artist Name Here</featuring> </albumArtistCredits>Currently MediaBrowser3 uses this tag... <artist clear=true>Artist Name Here</artist> <artist>Artist Name 2</artist> <artist>Artist Name 3</artist> <artist>Artist Name 4</artist> <artist>Artist Name 5</artist>Which forces XBMC to see all the artists. I hope that makes sense. Please can you fix it? I would love to start using your software to manage my music as there is currently no other stand alone app that does.On a side note I am surprised nobody else has mentioned this. Maybe its me doing something wrong :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37052 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 i don't remember seeing that in the xbmc wiki at the time this was built, but that's easy enough to change. so the album artist needs to be moved or duplicated from to ? @@sfnetwork @ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastan 0 Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 Here are the full NFO's one created by Media Browser 3 Server and the other was exported from XBMC Gotham Beta 2, so that you can see/test the problem. NFO LINK Just in case I wasnt fully clear I am referring to the album.nfo not the artist.nfo. I hope you guys can fix it I can't wait to tag up my music collection properly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37052 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 can you find xbmc documentation about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastan 0 Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 Not really. All that I can find is what is on the XBMC wiki HERE (This may be outdated) It looks like what you are currently conforming to the wiki page already. There is no mention of <albumArtistCredits> tag. You may want to speak to a XBMC developer on their forum. Sorry i cant be any more helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfnetwork 514 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 (edited) i don't remember seeing that in the xbmc wiki at the time this was built, but that's easy enough to change. so the album artist needs to be moved or duplicated from <artist> to <albumartistcredits>? @@sfnetwork @ Not really. All that I can find is what is on the XBMC wiki HERE (This may be outdated) It looks like what you are currently conforming to the wiki page already. There is no mention of <albumArtistCredits> tag. You may want to speak to a XBMC developer on their forum. Sorry i cant be any more helpful. Would it break anything to still do it? (If I understand correctly) Personally, for music, I don't have experience as I don't use music in XBMC (or in any of my HTPC solutions for that matter). I'm more interested in Google Music / iTunes / iMatch addons (and other online services like Rdio and Songza) but maybe I should get to it. Every time I start doing it, I always end up giving up (XBMC)... Basically, I won't be much help with music in XBMC specifically.... But I can test whatever needs to be test though. Edited March 23, 2014 by sfnetwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastan 0 Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 I don't mind testing it for you if you want a tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I haven't really been using XBMC but can install it and check things out. For my music, I don't really pay much attention to Album Artists as much as Artists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37052 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Ok. I can make this change as soon as either Xbmc documentation is updated or gotham goes final. I just want to wait until I know it's finalized before adopting something that could still change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastan 0 Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Thanks for keeping us informed. I will keep a close eye on developments and hold off from using MediaBrowser until then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyyou 0 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 (edited) Is there an update on this, or a way to tweak the mediabrowser NFO to force XBMC not taking the artist tag as an artist when there's an albumartist tag... (without have to put "various artists" on albumartist tag) the only thing i've found is to tag your mp3 files with musicbrainz_albumartistid tag with an unique ID from musicbrainz and then XBMC take only this one as an album artist Many thanks ! Edited July 22, 2014 by onlyyou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyyou 0 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 great to hear Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37052 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Is there an update on this, or a way to tweak the mediabrowser NFO to force XBMC not taking the artist tag as an artist when there's an albumartist tag... (without have to put "various artists" on albumartist tag) the only thing i've found is to tag your mp3 files with musicbrainz_albumartistid tag with an unique ID from musicbrainz and then XBMC take only this one as an album artist Many thanks ! It will be in the next server release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastan 0 Posted July 31, 2014 Author Share Posted July 31, 2014 Thanks for all the hard work! I have just tested it and the update for album artist works perfect. However I have now run into another problem. Once you save .NFO's for albums too and scan them into XBMC the problem re-appears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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