Incorrect "Album Artist" in Windows Media Player.

[Gakubuchi]

I'm using TwonkyMedia Server 5.1.6 that is installed on my Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 Cloud Edition. When I open Windows Media Player 12 on my Windows 7 machine, the albums gets listed many times, showing the “Album Artist” the same as the “Contributing Artists”, but it is not correct.
If I navigate to the music share in my NAS using Windows Explorer and manually select a music file, the "Album artist" and "Contributing artist" properties are correctly shown. But if I open it in Windows Media Player, the "Album artist" for the same song as before is mistakenly reported as the same as "Contributing Artist".
So with this, Media Player shows a different album for each song inside the same album, because he thinks it is a different album with a different album artist.
You can see this behaviour in the document that I've written, along with some screenshots:
http://personales.ya.com/marcus/public/wmp_twonky.pdf

I guess this is a problem of Twonky Media Server mistakenly reporting the “Contributing Artist” as the “Album Artist”. I’ve tried selecting “Windows Media Player” inside the “Media Receivers” configuration of the Twonky Media Server, with no luck. The “Album Artist” is always reported as the same as “Contributing Artist”.

[Twonky_Rick]

Thanks for reporting this. I've shared your post with our engineers.

- Rick

[Twonky_Rick]

Here is the response I received from him:

This seems to be issue of WMP , Please see the link below:
http://www.winvistatips.com/stop-album- ... 16386.html

Actually he should create the playlist using WMP without any NAS o0r external device then he can see album artist entries overwriting contributing entries , May this can help him and will wait for his comment J

[Citter]

[quote="Gakubuchi"]I'm using TwonkyMedia Server 5.1.6 that is installed on my Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 Cloud Edition. When I open Windows Media Player 12 on my Windows 7 machine, the albums gets listed many times, showing the “Album Artist” the same as the “Contributing Artists”, but it is not correct.
If I navigate to the music share in my NAS using Windows Explorer and manually select a music file, the "Album artist" and "Contributing artist" properties are correctly shown. But if I open it in Windows Media Player, the "Album artist" for the same song as before is mistakenly reported as the same as "Contributing Artist".
So with this, Media Player shows a different album for each song inside the same album, because he thinks it is a different album with a different album artist.
You can see this behaviour in the document that I've written, along with some screenshots:
http://personales.ya.com/marcus/public/wmp_twonky.pdf

I guess this is a problem of Twonky Media Server mistakenly reporting the “Contributing Artist” as the “Album Artist”. I’ve tried selecting “Windows Media Player” inside the “Media Receivers” configuration of the Twonky Media Server, with no luck. The “Album Artist” is always reported as the same as “Contributing Artist”.[/quote]


Hello,
I have exactly the same issue in my iomega ix4-200d Cloud Edition fiirmware 3.1.14 (TwonkyServer 6.0.32).

Additionaly, I can say that If I use directly the NAS just as shared folder, WMP12 shows fine the “Contributing Artist” and the “Album Artist”. The "Album Artist" only is overwrite by DLNA.

It is a problem for Albums with various artist. I have all of them "Album Artist"=VA (fixed) and the "Contributing Artist"=the real track artist.

And comment, WMP12 does not show any folder by DLNA, just to show all tracks (!).

Thanks in advanced,
Citter.