VLC Android/Album Artist, Artist Sorting Problem
There seems to be an issue in VLC Android for using both the Artist and Album Artist fields. My understanding is that the difference between these 2 MP3 fields are as follows:
Album Arist-who the entire album is being attributed to Artist-who is responsible for the individual track.
These don't have to be the same. Although in most cases, I suspect they are.
Consider the following test case. 1 Album (let's attibute it to Album Artist ). Then there are 3 tracks on each by , , and .
The album should be created and assigned to the album artist. However, what ends up happening, is that in this case 3 albums are displayed instead of 1.
This is not just a display issue, but a playback issue as the tracks won't play in the order intended unless you create a specific playlist. For my case, there are about 20 different artists which is creating 20 different albums for what should be a single album.
Seems to be a common bug across several music programs. Only Play Music got it right (in their web version), but wrong in their app. Amazon gets in wrong in both web and app.