WiiM Amp USB Album Artist / Compilation issue

Steve Woodhouse said:
Right I've tried it with other tracks, The Alarm's Spirit of '76, The Four Seasons' December '63, same result.

Everything is fine until I hit the apostrophe, then everything disappears.

I can bypass the PhD track by searching from after the apostrophe, so just "Let You Down Again", that works.

And apostrophes show correctly.

It's clear that it's just the search function having issues with apostrophes.

I've raised a ticket.
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Wow! Release notes for today’s Home App update suggest this has been fixed. That’s taken them just 10 days.

Superb customer support.
 
Yep, likewise the issue that I have been having still remains. The App release notes seem to refer to a QNAP indexing issue specifically, rather than the problem this thread is concerned with.

Just sitting tight and waiting for @WiiM Team to sort by the end of this month, as stated above.
 
d6jg said:
That's not a real world example.

What is more likely is that you know you have a version of Uptown Top Ranking by Althea & Donna on a compilation album somewhere but can't remember which one. A few letters into the search box and there it is ......

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What about that? It is actually 3:52
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Hi mate, the apostrophe fix is now up and has worked.

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So can we go back to my original question? I asked what the advantage was and you said “…it is all about the flexibility of being able to view and search your library in multiple different ways that you simply cannot achieve with simple folders.”

So what are those different ways? I’m still wanting to understand it, and every day is a school day.
 
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middleagedgrump said:
Hi @WiiM Team . So we're now into March - please can you update us on progress towards rectifying this issue? Conscious of the above statement that this would be resolved in Feb. Thanks.
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WiiM’s estimates are just that, estimates. Seasoned WiiM users tend to be relaxed about estimated target dates safe in the knowledge that they’ll see the fix/feature at some point :)
 
Burnside said:
WiiM’s estimates are just that, estimates. Seasoned WiiM users tend to be relaxed about estimated target dates safe in the knowledge that they’ll see the fix/feature at some point :)
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Personally, I prefer to wait a little longer to be sure that the fix for this bug will work perfectly. Of course, I'm not in a hurry.
 
Not quite fixed it appears.

Only a minor issue but while the album is now listed as one album the album artist isn't showing as "Various Artists" using the Album Artist tag but instead lists one of the Artists from a random individual track on the album. See screenshot.

I've updated Ticket #526002 USB Indexing of Various Artist Albums
 

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ddasterdly said:
Not quite fixed it appears.

Only a minor issue but while the album is now listed as one album the album artist isn't showing as "Various Artists" using the Album Artist tag but instead lists one of the Artists from a random individual track on the album. See screenshot.

I've updated Ticket #526002 USB Indexing of Various Artist Albums
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Exactly what I found with my WiiM Amp Pro. I didn't find any clear pattern regarding the artist tag used.
 
ddasterdly said:
Not quite fixed it appears.

Only a minor issue but while the album is now listed as one album the album artist isn't showing as "Various Artists" using the Album Artist tag but instead lists one of the Artists from a random individual track on the album. See screenshot.

I've updated Ticket #526002 USB Indexing of Various Artist Albums
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Hi Ddasterdly,

We've identified the root cause of the issue— the app was mistakenly confusing the track artist with the album artist. This will be fixed in the next app update.
 
WiiM Team said:
Hi Ddasterdly,

We've identified the root cause of the issue— the app was mistakenly confusing the track artist with the album artist. This will be fixed in the next app update.
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So the good part is that you can change the order of:
  • Source Input
  • My Library
  • Music Services
  • Voice and Streaming
It'd be nice to be able to change the order of options within these groups. So at the moment I have, in Source Input, in this order:
  • Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth
  • TV
  • Line In
  • Optical In
  • Phono In
  • USB
I only use Wi-Fi and USB, so it'd be nice to be able to move USB next to Wi-Fi, rather than swapping between two ends of the list.
 
WiiM Team said:
Hi Ddasterdly,

We've identified the root cause of the issue— the app was mistakenly confusing the track artist with the album artist. This will be fixed in the next app update.
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Thank you for your customer care, it's awesome (y)

Is folder navigation on a USB storage device using the front display instead of the WiiM Home app planned for the future?
 
Djinn said:
Thank you for your customer attention, it's awesome (y)

Is folder navigation on a USB storage device using the front display instead of the WiiM Home app planned for the future?
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The Amp and Amp Pro don't have a display. Did you mean on an Ultra?
 
Djinn said:
Thank you for your customer care, it's awesome (y)

Is folder navigation on a USB storage device using the front display instead of the WiiM Home app planned for the future?
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It’s mentioned as being worked on in the ultra’s roadmap.

faq.wiimhome.com

WiiM Ultra Roadmap

Updated on Dec 23, 2024 What we're working on … We want to give you visibility into some of the features we are working on. For a complete list of released features, please refer to our official release notes. If you would like to make a ...
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