Instead of showing what is in the 'albumartist' tag, shows one of the artists

[karinqe1]

I have a couple compilation albums that have several artists in them. I set 'compilation' to 1 and 'albumartist' and 'albumartistsort' to 'Various Artists'. Desktop players (e.g. Clementine) recognize it well. Most Android music players seem to completely ignore this and show me a huge list of individual artists. Odyssey is great in this way - it only shows one artist!

However, it doesn't show them under "Various Artists", it shows them under one of the artists of the album. So far I noticed that it seems to be the artist of the last track. For example, an album with tracks "01 - ArtistA - trackA", "02 - ArtistB - trackB", "03 - ArtistC - trackC" will be shown under "ArtistC" in Odyssey, but the other artists don't show up. I'd expect it to be under "Various Artists".

I'm using version 1.1.2, on CyanogenMod 13.0.

[gnome17]

Hi, thanks for your feedback. Sadly the android media database doesn't provide a column for an albumartist.

We found a workaround, by special filtering the albums table, so that we are able to only show one artist for your compilations.

We may have a way to filter compilations and list them under an special artist called "Various Artists".

We will consider your request but it may take a while because it is a bit tricky to achieve :beers:

[mjbogusz]

This happened to me too but in a slightly different situation: an album by 'ArtistA', all files tagged with 'ArtistA' as both 'artist' and 'albumartist' except one in the middle, which had 'albumartist' = 'ArtistA' and 'artist' = 'ArtistA feat ArtistB' . And the whole album got labeled as 'ArtistA feat ArtistB' on the list.

The android media database is indeed problematic, I guess that's why other players aiming at proper album artist tag support end up implementing their own databases (at least 2 that I know about do that). However, if you can list them under a special artist, couldn't you just list all albums under their respective 'albumartist' values?

[rh-github-2015]

Came here for this very issue. My point - I want control. Thus, sorting an entire album under the albumartist tag if it exists would be perfect. As it is, re-tagging "La Yegros/Viene de mi" with an albumartist helped a lot, while similarly re-tagging Klaus Schulze/Farscape doesn't. Rheingold is even worse - as far as I can tell, both artist and albumartist are the same for both albums, but Farscape gets sorted under "Klaus Schulze, Lisa Gerrard" while Rheingold gets displayed both under the composite artist and "Klaus Schulze" where it belongs - both with all tracks, despite Lisa appearing only on the two tracks 02. Several artists with separators in one single artist tag should never be sorted as one single artist with an ugly combined name, period...

All considered - extremely well done App!