[WORKS AS EXPECTED VS BAD TAGGING] Build #24496 (May 8th 2026) - Library issue

[wd9895]

Build #24496 (May 8th 2026)

There seems to be a library issue. Artist and Album Artist are mixed up.

Exanple:
I have a ripped CD from George Benson. The songs are stored in one folder and should appear as one collection from song 1 to 10.
But it appear in 2 CDs with same album name "20/20".

The issue was the one CD carried "George Benson", the other "Benson, George" but not in Artist name but in Album Artist. But the column in the library is just "Artist".

After manual correction of "Album Artist" the CDs appeare as one.

I have several issues found in my database which do not appear under original Winamp release as the column "Artist" reads right field from metadata correctly.

I hope to have described the issue properly enough for your debugging.

[dro]

Comparing to winamp at this point isn't helpful when they use completely different solutions especially when it comes to MP3 (you've not noted what these files were). Plus I moved to using taglib2 from taglib1 recently so maybe that has changed something which I've not seen. So without seeing the raw metadata from the file &/or an example copy showing the issue I can't say why it's seemingly wrong vs your expectations.

[wd9895]

Hi Dro,

sorry but herewith your find some data.

Album view in library view. Column "Artist" shows correct name.
Mysterious to me is the separation in two album. Root cause is the information in "Album Artist". If I correct this manually the two albums become one.

A comparision of the file metadata show the differences and the impact on the doubling of the album.

[ww]

Maybe you could check under Preferences-Media Library-Local Library-View Filters ...

There is an option related to Albumartist tag handling incl. some explanation.

WW

[wd9895]

Thank you.
Option found. Never knew this option before, thanks.

[dro]

That option has been in my local library plug-in from quite early on as it was never clear which was the better way to go with album grouping (i.e. assume the files are correctly tagged which is the default setting or deal with them not being correctly tagged but make it seem like it's grouping ok but in a different manner to even what winamp did). The fact it showed up the difference means probably its still the better choice to have it group the way it does by default though I'm still torn on whether it shouldn't be so it just fools things to look more like is expected irrespective of the quality of the tag data (which it'd be doing if there wasn't an albumartist set).