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Rockbox 4.0 - Album Artist changed behaviour

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croxis:
Having upgraded from 3.15 to 4.0 I noticed the Album Artist menu on the Database is not showing any artists when the album artist is not present. In other words, I only see listed files which have an album artist tag present.

What can I do to restore the previous behaviour?

Bilgus:
It used to be we mushed them all together which created some issue when both existed
you should be able to go to 'Artists' which I think will still mush them together but
not 100% on that

croxis:

--- Quote from: Bilgus on April 02, 2025, 06:45:34 AM ---It used to be we mushed them all together which created some issue when both existed
you should be able to go to 'Artists' which I think will still mush them together but
not 100% on that

--- End quote ---

Going to 'Artists' has all the Artists mushed together yes, this is the same as 3.15 when going to 'Artists'.
What changed was the behavior of 'Album Artist' where in 3.15 it wouldn't show the Artists values if there was an 'albumartist' tag present. Meaning it wouldn't list Artists from compilation albums and instead had a 'Various Artists' artist which is what I use on all my compilation albums on the 'albumartist' tag. (this is my desired behaviour).

Bilgus:
Sorry was a bit fuzzy on the changes around this

several of the devs were discussing this as the patch came through and nearly reverted it

it is different than the previous behavior but after checking it out
I feel that its probably correct in regard to the other tags
going to <Untagged> will get the rest of the entries and pretty much give you similar.
Not exactly the same though since there is now separation between the <untagged> tracks and the ones that do actually have an album artist

That said if there is interest I can come up with a custom entry to get you the old behavior

croxis:
Going to [Untagged] on 'Album Artist' lists all the albums which is not intended.


--- Quote from: Bilgus on April 02, 2025, 08:00:08 AM ---That said if there is interest I can come up with a custom entry to get you the old behavior

--- End quote ---

I'm interested on this, I have created a tagnavi_user.config copied from the original:


--- Code: ---# Define the title of the main menu
%menu_start "main" "Database"
"Album Artist" -> albumartist   -> album  -> title = "fmt_title"
--- End code ---

How do I go about changing this?

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