Audirvana doesn't update when "Album Artist" is updated?

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Hi,
Testing Audirvana currently and I am very happy with the sound improvements over my current application so I think I will buy it.

I have found one weired behaviour/bug though?

I have several “Various Artist” albums all rip:ed to Flac where “Album Artist” field seem to be empty and Compilation is set to Yes. Audirvana sorts these albums first Albums view so I tried to update Album Artist to “Various Artists” so it would sort under “Various Artists” instead.

Unafortunately Audirvana doesn’t seem to detect this change and update Albums View? Is this a bug? Do I need to remove the database and create a new one?

As you can se below several Various Artist albums are sorted first. I have updated “The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume One” has an update Album Artist tag with “Various Artists”.

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Albums already with an Album Artist tag set to “Various Artists” is sorted correctly

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Tags set for “The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume One”, still sorts wrong
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Tag for “The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume Two” have not been updated and is sorting wrong ofc.

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Hello @spda242,

Can you open one of those album and open the metadata panel? Do you see the Album as Various Artist?

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I looks like I can only see that field if the album had that tag then first imported?

This is an album which had “Various Artists” when I added it
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This is the album in the previous example, It has no such tag even after set the field to “Various Artists”.
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Strange indeed.

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You need to open the album and not select a track in it to be able to change this metadata.

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Thank you @Antoine, that solved it! Didn’t understand that I could change data for an album as well as a song.
When import the bulk of my CD (Flac) collection fixing any other VA albums will be very easy.

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