Enhanced meta data / various artists / album artists

JulianJulian Member
edited May 4 in General

Just wrapping my head around where we are now....

Album is Disco 5

Artists are different artists

Album Artist is Pet Shop Boys

It is not ticked as a compilation in the ID tags

The album ONLY shows under Various Artists. It does NOT show under Pet Shop Boys.

Therefore, are you now (did you before?) taking all multi-artist albums and making them Various Artists? No problem if you are, but just curious!!!

If you aren't - why do you think this is happening?

Addendum : I have tried rescanning the library but clearly is still isn't picking up the Album Artist as I see it in the library. I wonder why?

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  • gravelldgravelld Administrator
    edited May 4

    I'll take a look at this tomorrow... bank holiday here today. Hope that's ok.

  • JulianJulian Member

    Same here! I am loving the combo of Astiga with Nautiline. Game changer! 😀

  • JulianJulian Member

    I ended up removing the library and adding it back in. Just to see what happens. And then I suddenly realised there’s a feature in beta which is that you can enhance your library with other meta data brought in from outside and I suspect that might be what is happening because those two albums are listed as compilations on other platforms so I’ve switched that off and we’ll see what happens by tomorrow

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator
    edited May 5

    Is this when viewing via Nautiline only, or via the Web too?

    Artist information (related to album assignment) currently isn't enhanced with library enhancement enabled.

  • JulianJulian Member

    on Astiga

    I'm going mad. Which menu has access to switch on or off enhanced metadata? I can never EVER find it a second time! Ha!

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    It's on your settings page:

    Screenshot_2026-05-05_14-11-48.png


  • JulianJulian Member

    Darn - the top right! Keep forgetting that one!

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    I think this might be a problem with the general sync code. I can see the ALBUM_ARTIST is "Pet Shop Boys" but we are assigning it "Various Artists", probably because all the tracks in the same folder have a different track artist. However, you're correct, an explicit ALBUM_ARTIST should overwrite that. I'll investigate some more.

  • JulianJulian Member

    Question :

    The album's Album Artist is Pet Shop Boys

    The 'band' tag in Astiga is Various Artists and that is what Astiga is following - not the Album Artist.

    What is the band tag? Is that one I haven't spotted elsewhere?

  • JulianJulian Member

    It is physically (!) in the Pet Shop Boys folder.

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    We currently don't use file/folder names for identification (although it is one heuristic for grouping albums) - only the tags.

    I found the issue: for m4a files we simply don't look for album_artist as your files are tagged. I'll add this - it should be fixed from the next deployment (early next week).

  • JulianJulian Member

    Ah - marvellous! Thanks for helping and I hope you are happy me continuing to be a pain!

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    No, thanks for reporting!

  • gravelldgravelld Administrator

    @Julian This fix is deployed: https://community.asti.ga/discussion/comment/4601/#Comment_4601

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