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Music library: Album-Artist tag of compilations not used if Musicbrainz ID exists - einhänder - 2015-02-01

Hi all,

how do I tell KODI (15.0-ALPHA1 Git:2015-01-31-db54f53-dirty) to ignore Musicbrainz IDs (MBID) completely even if there exist files containing MBIDs?
I'm asking the question because the wiki pages state the following:
Quote:MusicBrainz tag reading/online overriding is enabled by default. The setting for this can be found in Settings -> Music -> Library -> Override song tags with online information
Is turned off.

Quote:If you don't have MusicBrainz tags and you have the option turned off, you should see the exact same as you saw in v12 Frodo.
Works.

Quote:If you don't have MusicBrainz tags and you have the option turned on, you should see the exact same as you saw in v12 Frodo.
Works.

Quote:If you have MusicBrainz tags and you have the option turned off, you should see the exact same as you saw in v12 Frodo.
Does not work.

Cheers

RE: Music library: How to ignore Musicbrainz IDs? - einhänder - 2015-02-02

Even rebuilding the database didn't change anything.

RE: Music library: How to ignore Musicbrainz IDs? - einhänder - 2015-02-03

Well, after a further inspection I figured out that KODI uses the custom tags indeed. But what happens actually is that KODI does not use the user defined album-interpret field as artist when the compilation flag is set to 1.

RE: Music library: Album-Artist of comilations not used if Musicbrainz ID exists - einhänder - 2015-02-05

For a summary I deleted my DB once again and setup the following prerequisites:

- Added two albums (A) and (B) to the database
- (A) does carry MBIDs
- (B) does not carry MBIDs


Test 1:
- (A) and (B) are set to "Compilation = 1"

Result:
- (A) does not appear inside the "Artist" section at all
- (B) does appear inside the "Artist" section using data from the "Album-Artist" tag field


Test 2:
- (A) and (B) are set to "Compilation = 0"

Result:
- (A) and (B) do appear inside the "Artist" section using data from the "Album-Artist" tag field


Is this the intended behaviour or is it rather a bug?
If it is intended, then what's the intention behind it?