[flizarthanon]

so, plenty of albums have multiple artists eg:  "The Sounds of '66" has Sammy Davis Jr and Buddy Rich.

upon importing the album from my library, kodi creates a singular artist entry called Sammy Davis Jr., Buddy Rich (which obviously doesn't have artist artwork)

I would love the behavior of not creating this new combo artist, but instead having the album appear in both Buddy Rich's and Sammy Davis Jr.'s individual artist entries.

Is something like this possible? I haven't been able to find an answer by searching.

Forgive me if this is a noob question.

[MikeKL]

Yes its possible but unfortunately involves the need to add and utilise an additional tag ALBUMARTISTS when perfoming tagging/retagging of your music files. (tag not normally added by default by tagging applications, but required by Kodi)
Take a look at albumartists section of kodi wiki https://kodi.wiki/view/Music_tagging#albumartists for example method of how to achieve this using MusicBrainz Picard music tagger

[flizarthanon]

I've been using beets.io to tag everything so albumartist is already populated by comma separated artists in the case of multiple album artists.

In the example I gave, both sammy davis jr and buddy rich are album artists

the field is "albumartist: Sammy Davis Jr., Buddy Rich"

the behavior I would love from Kodi is to see this field and then populate the album simultaneously under the Sammy Davis Jr artist page AND the Buddy Rich artist page instead of creating an artist named "Sammy Davis Jr., Buddy Rich"

[MikeKL]

My understanding (as indicated in the wiki) is that the additional tag field required by Kodi is albumartists
Try it as it works as expected for my files when this tag is included.

Note you may/will need to remove offending albums from folder being scanned by Kodi, run a clean on your music DB, then put updated tagged album/files back into folder and perform a kodi rescan of each updated album to see corrected information.
(This is my recollection of what I needed to do to ensure correct overall Kodi DB sorting, of all the artists of a track which contains multiple artists)

[Karellen]

is that the additional tag field required by Kodi is albumartists

That is correct.
Correct link here (your link goes elsewhere for some reason)... https://kodi.wiki/view/Music_tagging#albumartists

[MikeKL]

Correct link here (your link goes elsewhere for some reason)... https://kodi.wiki/view/Music_tagging#albumartists

Thanks Karellen, link corrected in my post.

[tkakanowski]

Anyone happen to know how this works with compilations? I have lots of those for Christmas, typical with an Album Artist of "Various" in my collection, with track artists delimited, and having a similar issue as OP.  Would I add an albumartists tag to each track, different data for that tag on each track, essentially duplicating the track artists (thus each track would have different [and often multiple] albumartists in most cases)?  Kodi is not the system of record for my audio library, and multiple apps use this metadata, so I wont be changing the track artists, the orthodox way of doing this, but it would be easy enough to add a new albumartists tag to duplicate that content if that does the trick for Kodi.  What a timely conversation for my problem!

[MikeKL]

Following is an example of an mp3 file tagged by Musicbrainz using the additional script option as suggested in wiki to ensure that ALBUMARTISTS tag is included.
(Image is a capture of mp3tag information when observing a number of standard & extended tags included in mp3 file)



And here is track available for selection and playback when being searched for, via kodi artist look-up with tracks known to be available for each of the Artists from the above track in my Kodi library.

Caron Wheeler





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