Question About Browsing the Database

[GeorgeHJ]

Hello,

I am having trouble using the Browse Database feature.

As you can see it isn't separating out artists.

Browsing the filesystem works as expected (similar to ympd).

Sorry for not using the template but I get the feeling this isn't a bug but rather something I'm doing wrong.

How should I go about trouble shooting?

Thanks.

ps. if you think this merits a bug report I will make one

[jcorporation]

Does mpc list Albumartist works in your environment?

See you any error in the Firefox Web Console?

[Emilot]

You may have an ad blocker in Firefox. Disable it and try again :)

[GeorgeHJ]

Thanks for being so helpful both.
Unfortunately disabling my adblocker doesn't change matters.
However I can't list the AlbumArtist tag with MPC. Is this a compile time option I need to find and change? I'm using an AUR package on Arch Linux Arm.

[jcorporation]

You must enable AlbumArtist in your mpd.conf.

metadata_to_use "albumartist,artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date"

And then rebuild your mpd database - stop mpd, delete it, start mpd and run mpc update
Afterwards listing AlbumArtists should work.

[GeorgeHJ]

It works!

Huzzah!

I did just as you said. Restarting MPD with systemctl did the trick. The database was checked and deleted by MPD on its startup.

Thanks! Sorry to bother you, I did have an exhaustive look at mpd documentation but it can be difficult to use sometimes.