This album shown is by the artist Buckethead, but shows up as Buckethead & Friends which is incorrect.
I have one album by Buckethead & Friends, but that is a collaborative record whilst this one (and others) should be by just Buckethead.
Device type
Phone
Media provider
pCloud
Steps to reproduce
Go to any Buckethead album, and it shows as the wrong artist.
Additional information
Giant Robot is by Buckethead. It is incorrectly labelled as Buckethead & Friends. Enter the Chicken is by the Buckethead & Friends collab artist name making it the only one that seems to be correct. I use Musicbrainz to help with metadata so there shouldn’t be a problem in regards to that.
The logs were uploaded from the application under “2026June10ArtistErrorLogs”.
Gonna tell you exactly what the dev will say: “check your tags, the app doesn’t make up information.”
You say you use MusicBrainz… Have you confirmed that the MusicBrainzReleaseArtistID tags for the tracks is different? Odds are they have the same MBID and are thus treated as the same artist.
First ensure the artist is tagged as “Buckethead” vs “Buckethead & friends”. Then:
ensure the MBID matches “Buckethead” and is not the MBID for “Buckethead & friends”
Or
enable the setting to ignore MBIDs altogether (Media Provider settings > “Ignore MusicBrainz IDs”)
I did the leg work for you. Only took me a minute since MusicBrainz site is straight forward enough…
MusicBrainz does not have a separate MBID for BH “& friends” vs just BH.
You can see the linked artist is just “Buckethead”, not the whole “Buckethead & Friends”. Thus, as I said, they share the MBID and will appear grouped in your library. See solution 2 above.
That’s really odd. I did check my tags for Giant Robot and Enter the Chicken. It is what the tags are supposed to be as, so I wonder what the issue would be. Is the app telling me the Artist or Album Artist? Not that I think that would be the issue, but I’m very curious how this happened because it was fine before I added the latter album.
I’m not very familiar with the MusicBrainz software since I barely use it. I know in the scripting area you can “unset” certain tags that you don’t want it to change. But I don’t think that would help here since the info is already there.
Easiest way imo is just to use a tag editor like Mp3tag and manually clear the MBID tags for the tracks that are in the wrong place. (You’ll need to use the detailed tag view, press Alt+T to open the panel.) This can be done for all of the tracks at once; just sort by artist and the “& Friends” tracks should be grouped for you to highlight.
Or if you don’t want to edit the tags, then as I said you can enable the option in Symfonium inside your Media Provider settings to ignore MBIDs for the whole provider. (Which may negatively affect other artists.) This will allow the app to look at the actual Artist tags, so “BH” will be separate from “BH & F” as you would expect.
My apologies, the setting I was referring to was added recently and is only available in the Beta version for now. It’s not yet available for regular users.
So you would need to either edit the tag data to remove the MBIDs or just wait until the app v15 is released. (Might be a couple of weeks away.)
If you do edit the tags, make sure to “Clear tag cache” and rescan your library afterward.
Removing/Ignoring the MBIDs will result in the albums being attributed to two different artists (“Buckethead” and “Buckethead & Friends”).
Do your files contain the Albumartists tag (not created by Picard in its default configuration)?
As far as I know Symfonium still doesn’t support the Albumartists tag, but that’s the solution; until then all you can really do is modify the Albumartist tag.
I’ve included artist.nfo files for Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones as their full name isn’t in the albumartist(s)/artist(s) tag. I included the Jay-Z artist.nfo because he’s had a number of official name changes and I prefer Jay-Z
