USB Library - Various Artists Albums

[ddasterdly]

Not sure if I've inadvertently changed a setting or if something may have changed in the latest firmware update.

I have a Wiim Amp Pro. I've just updated a couple of albums media tags and rescanned my USB drive and all the "Various Artists" albums have been split into separate albums for each artist. So, instead of 1 album I have 1 album for each track. They were previously OK.

Any ideas / suggestions appreciated.

 

[harkpabst]

If you search the forum you will find that this is considered a bug introduced with the latest feature update for USB scanning.

 

[ddasterdly]

My particular issue early fixed with recent Amp Pro firmware update and yesterday's App update.

Various Artists albums now listed as one album but "Album Artist" incorrect.

Reported to Wiim.

See this thread: https://forum.wiimhome.com/threads/wiim-amp-usb-album-artist-compilation-issue.6388/page-6

 

[ddasterdly]

Regarding Bug Fix 3: "USB Media Library"

After updating the App on Android today and re-scanning the USB drive (Quick and Full Re-scan). The issue (not really a big thing) relating to Various Artist albums has changed but still isn't quite right. The album artist is stated as the artist of the first track on the album and not "Various Artists" which is the name in the album artist tags.

I've updated case #526002.

 

[harkpabst]

Regarding Bug Fix 3: "USB Media Library"

After updating the App on Android today and re-scanning the USB drive (Quick and Full Re-scan). The issue (not really a big thing) relating to Various Artist albums has changed but still isn't quite right. The album artist is stated as the artist of the first track on the album and not "Various Artists" which is the name in the album artist tags.

I've updated case #526002.

Is that on a WiiM Amp Pro (as suggested by the tagging)? Since the actual scanning and indexing is performed by the WiiM device (and then obviously cached in some way by the WiiM Home app) it could be that a further firmware update is also needed to finally fix the issue.

I'm also performing a full rescan on my Amp Pro right now (WiiM Home app 3.1.7 on Android) and will see if I end up with the same result.

 

[ddasterdly]

Is that on a WiiM Amp Pro (as suggested by the tagging)? Since the actual scanning and indexing is performed by the WiiM device (and then obviously cached in some way by the WiiM Home app) it could be that a further firmware update is also needed to finally fix the issue.

I'm also performing a full rescan on my Amp Pro right now (WiiM Home app 3.1.7 on Android) and will see if I end up with the same result.

Yes it is a Wiim Amp Pro.

Wiim support have asked for copies of the files. I guess so they can try and replicate.

 

[harkpabst]

Yes it is a Wiim Amp Pro.

Wiim support have asked for copies of the files. I guess so they can try and replicate.

I can fully confirm your findings with WiiM Amp Pro firmware 5.2.709965 and WiiM Home app Android 3.1.7.250320.781178.

 

[ddasterdly]

This from Wiim Supoort:

"Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

We have successfully reproduced the issue with the tracks you provided. Our engineering team will investigate it promptly" .

 

[WiiM Team]

This from Wiim Supoort:

"Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

We have successfully reproduced the issue with the tracks you provided. Our engineering team will investigate it promptly" .

We have identified the root cause and found that the artist name "Various Artist" was incorrectly treated as invalid. We will respect the original artist name in the track file and correct the logic in the next firmware update. Stay tuned!

 

[ddasterdly]

We have identified the root cause and found that the artist name "Various Artist" was incorrectly treated as invalid. We will respect the original artist name in the track file and correct the logic in the next firmware update. Stay tuned!

Thanks. Great support and communication!

 

[harkpabst]

We have identified the root cause and found that the artist name "Various Artist" was incorrectly treated as invalid. We will respect the original artist name in the track file and correct the logic in the next firmware update. Stay tuned!

"Various Artists" is not the only artist name potentially affected, though.

I have a couple of albums released by KEF when celebrating their 50th anniversary. All of them (all songs) have the ALBUMARTIST tag set to "KEF", but the artist of the first song is shown in the "Albums" view. The "Artists" view doesn't show any artist of this name.

I will be updating my own ticket on this topic with more details later.