Hi, I’m very new to this app, but I’m thoroughly enjoying my trial version and am strongly considering purchasing the full version soon. I was really impressed by how infinitely customizable the app is.
However, I encountered a frustrating issue regarding how the app prioritizes artist tags with different capitalization.
An option to select the preferred capitalization style for artist tags, or a fix to ensure the app respects the user’s file import order regarding case sensitivity.
Currently, even after clearing the cache and importing all-caps tags (e.g., “THE BEATLES”) first, the app automatically overwrites and forces the display to a mixed/lowercase format (e.g., “The beatles”) once those files are added.
The app should either respect the user’s preferred tag or provide a display setting (e.g., As Tagged, Force Title Case, Force Uppercase).
Problem solved
It solves the frustrating issue where the app ignores the user’s intent and file metadata capitalization rules.
Currently, users cannot control how identical artist names with different capitalization are displayed.
Even if a user clears the cache and strategically imports files to set a specific capitalization preference, the app automatically forces its own priority rules, overriding the user’s setup and messing up the library aesthetics.
Brought benefits
This would allow users to have full control over their music library’s visual appearance, staying true to the app’s core strength of being “infinitely customizable.”
It will prevent unwanted text overwrites, ensure a clean and unified library layout, and significantly improve the overall user experience for music collectors who are sensitive to metadata tags.
Other application solutions
In other music applications, the artist display name is determined by whichever file is imported first.
For instance, if files tagged as “THE BEATLES” are added first, the app creates the artist profile under that exact name.
Even if files tagged as “The beatles” are added later, the app maintains the original “THE BEATLES” capitalization on the artist list and page without forcefully overwriting it.
If you have a preferred way of tagging your files, why not just… Tag your files that way? Like, all of them?
And before you say you have too many to adjust, taggers like Mp3tag provide functions to convert fields to Title Case, all Upper case, all Lower case, etc. so you can pretty effortlessly batch format all your tags to match.
Having a neat library takes work. On your end.
If you ask this dev to add a setting to make your library look pretty in this one app, what happens when you use some other software down the road? Your library will still be messed up. You’re going to have to fix it at some point.
If the issue is instead that you have two different artists that should be separated but aren’t… Like if “John Smith” and “jOHN sMITH” are actually different artists but are being combined? You can use the MUSICBRAINZARTISTID field to distinguish them.
Even if you don’t actually use MusicBrainz, I’m pretty sure you can enter anything in this field as long as you keep the value consistent for Artist A vs Artist B. In the app, you can then ensure your Media Provider settings are set to separate artists by MBID (already on by default).
(Note I’m not a dev, just another user. The app really is amazing so I hope you stick around!)
Apologies if I came off a little hostile. The initial post sounded more like you just had randomly mismatched tags. But you have a solid reason for the tags not to match.
@Tolriq I did some testing on this myself and this behavior overrides even the values in an artist.nfo file.
This seemingly does not apply to the <name> field. I made an nfo using name in “TEST ARTIST” and two tracks, one using that format and one using “Test artist”.
The nfo data is being read (bio is displayed) but the Artist page displays “Test artist” rather than the nfo’s upper-case value. The Tracks page correctly displays the value in each track’s tags.
Very slightly different behavior in that the track’s details now show the nfo’s version of the name for both tracks rather than each one displaying the name from its tags. In other words, the name from artist.nfo is preferred everywhere, not just on the Artist page. (Makes sense to me, I’m just making note of it.)
@mk9696 To set this up for whenever the next version is available, you’ll need to set up an Artist Information folder for your library. (At minimum, just for the artists that you want to select a capitalization for.)
Follow the link from the quote I posted a bit higher up, and the page will explain what that means and how to set it up.
If you have a lot of artists that need it, I recommend just installing Kodi on a PC and adding your music library to it. You can then export your library to have Kodi automatically generate the folder for you. Then just edit the <name> line for the relevant artists.