Bug report: albumartist is ignored in Ogg Opus containers

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Gerben

Bug report: albumartist is ignored in Ogg Opus containers

What is wrong: If the Vorbis comment within an OGG container encapsulating OPUS encoded audio has a field albumartist, the contents of this field are ignored by the BluOS indexing process. This might also be the case in other OGG containers, but this has not been tested.

Consequences:

  1. If albumartist field is defined and artist fields are absent, then BluOS assigns the album to Unknown Artist, instead of the defined albumartist
  2. If albumartist field is defined and artist fields are defined, then BluOS assigns the album to Various Artists, instead of the defined albumartist

Tested on: Android app v4.2.4 & v4.6.0, Windows v4.4.1, BluOS v4.4.19

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  • Official comment
    Dan Gravell

    Just a guess - I can't test it right now - but have you tried with a space or an underscore? E.g.

    ALBUM ARTIST
    ALBUM_ARTIST
  • Gerben

    Hi Dan,

    Just tried, both ALBUM ARTIST and ALBUM_ARTIST are ignored as well. Found also that COMPOSER is ignored. So the bug is even worse than thought initially.

    Utterly surprised your comment got flagged as "official comment", apparently Bluesound / BluOS / NAD do not care to take bug reports seriously.

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  • Gerben

    Hi Seppi,

    No, I do not perform any testing through the library, but on a dedicated USB stick directly into the USB port, which should be automatically indexed.

    Typically, I discover the bugs through the library, then perform the trial-and-error testing through USB. Too bad we, the users, the customers, have to do this in the first place.

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  • Gerben

    If BluOS would be fine, we would not need to do any testing.

    Bliss has an interesting article on albumartist, showing that every player reviewed reads ALBUMARTIST and all but one read ALBUM ARTIST:

    https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2013/08/13/mind-your-flac-albumartists/

    That article is more than 11 years old, but BluOS .....

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  • Gerben

    Today I noted that the revamped website lists all devices supporting the OPUS file format. This may be true as far as decoding and playing the audio is concerned, but it seems rather misleading with regards to handling the metadata.

    Only workaround I could dream up, is to transcode to FLAC in a native FLAC container.

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