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Pulling this one up... Helix has the same issue.
A track 123 feat. DEF by artist ABC has both artists (ABC and DEF) as musicbrainz artist IDs, seperated by semicolon.
When it's added to the library, I see in the album view ABC / ABC - 123 (feat DEF).
Once I query the album infos manually, the album view shows ABC / DEF - 123 (feat. DEF) - as it should.
I can't believe we're the only ones having this issue...
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2014-11-07, 15:51
(This post was last modified: 2014-11-07, 15:51 by Rouzax.)
I always assumed I was the only one with this annoying problem, which I still have by the way.
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I'm on Windows 7 64bit using Kodi Beta - when I scan in a new album I get the duplicate tags displayed. If I then refresh using the information screen, it corrects. What combination of options do I need to set, to avoid the 2 step process?
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And even after I get the info, the artists are just listed. That means that all info like featuring, &, presenting, etc is missing.
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Have you tried deselecting include artists who appear only on compilations in the music settings? This should fix your problem.
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mancer
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It doesn't fix the problem.
It also happens on both Windows and Mac as well as Gotham and Helix.
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Davey
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Anybody has a view? It would be really good to see the ARTIST feat. ARTISTS1 as tagged rather than ARTIST/ARTIST1 after scanning and refreshing
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2014-11-23, 14:33
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No comment from any of the devs?
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Same problem here.
Seeing a duplicate artist name in my playlist isn't a big concern for me, but Last.fm not scrobbling correctly is!
Hope this gets sorted out soon.
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2014-11-26, 03:02
(This post was last modified: 2014-11-26, 03:16 by scott967.)
It depends on how you want the artists to show in the library views. There's probably some room for improvement in the logic, but with the MBID stuff added, it's kind of complex.
The thing is, if your artist tag is set as
Beginner feat. Das Bo & Ferris MC
Then Kodi tag reader is going to see that as a single artist. OK, but if you now also include all three artist ID tags, Kodi is going to assume you know what you want, and will create 3 artists, one with each of the Artist ID tags. It will scrape artist info using the tags, so the info is correct. Problem is, it will use the single artist tag as the artist string name for all 3 entries, unless you have the "override tag info" set, in which case in the database for the artists it will replace the 3 duplicate string names with what it gets from MB, namely Beginner, Das Bo, and Ferris MC. Now you also have to consider the album artist, in this case it's Beginner. So without the "override" setting you will also get an artist from the album artist tag in addition to the three instances of Beginner feat. Das Bo & Ferris MC (4 in all). The next issue is whether you have a MB AlbumArtist ID tag (for Beginner) in addition to the 3 artist ID tags. In this case Kodi sees that the album artist and the first (song) artist are the same and does not duplicate the artist in the database (in other words in this scenario there end up 3 artists, Beginner, and Beginner feat. Das Bo & Ferris MC twice).
Meanwhile, the database also saves something called "song artist string". This is only used for display with the track/song itself, not a part of the list of artists. This probably needs some tweaking as the song will have 3 song artists saved that it shows as
Beginner feat. Das Bo & Ferris MC / Beginner feat. Das Bo & Ferris MC / Beginner feat. Das Bo & Ferris MC
probably not so good. I suspect the problem is some people want the song artist to read
Beginner feat. Das Bo & Ferris MC
and meanwhile have 3 artists in the database, namely
Beginner
Das Bo
Ferris MC
but I don't think you can get that. You could get the song artist as
Beginner / Das Bo / Ferris MC
while keeping all three artists in the database, but I guess some people want to keep that "feat.".
Right now Kodi won't do that for you (at least I don't see any way). It might be easier to get something like
Beginner feat. Das Bo feat. Ferris MC
but even that I don't think is simple do to all the possible permutations of artists/album artists/MB artist ID/MB AlbumArtist ID.
For my part I strip out all "feat." and " & " that are used as conjunctives in artist or album artist tags, and instead use separate tags for each, ignoring whether or not the second (or additional) artists have a "feat." credit.
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Could KODI save "song artist string" as the original tag "Beginner feat. Das Bo & Ferris" and then store the individual artists. That way the database can be search on the individual artists but the GUI would display the correct artists description when displaying the "album list" of "now playing" - of course this is from someone who knows nothing off the internal workings of KODI
