Cambridge Audio / StreamMagic only displaying first artist

[vilsen]

Re: Cambridge Audio / StreamMagic only displaying first artist

My buddy has a Cambridge 851N which shares the firmware with CXNv2 I believe. Same story, it also only displays a single ARTIST. But there's an odd twist or two:

If transcoding to wav or mp3 it does display multiple ARTISTs - unless the track also has ALBUM ARTIST, which is then displayed...!

So dropping ALBUM ARTIST & transcoding to wav would probably give you multiple ARTISTs - but way too awkward and non-standard of course.

I wonder what's going on whilst transcoding? Either Asset sends the metadata differently (I really don't think so), or Cambridge streamers are crappy at reading it. I strongly suspect that the latter is the case here.

Could @Spoon or @Peter confirm that metadata is formatted & sent uniformly by Asset - transcoding or not?

[Spymaster]

Re: Cambridge Audio / StreamMagic only displaying first artist

What happens if you use artist 1; artist 2 (in dBpa) or artist1\\artist2 (in mp3tag) in the artist sort tag, but use a single entry artist1, artist2 (with a comma) in the artist tag?

The original multiple artist entry was so searches would pick either artist, not for display completeness.

That doesn't work unfortunately. The display shows "Artist1 & Artist2" as a single entity but, despite separating them in the artist sort tag as "Artist1; Artist2", only one artist entity has been created, which is "Artist 1 & Artist". So the artist sort tag appears to make no difference in this case.

[schmidj]

Re: Cambridge Audio / StreamMagic only displaying first artist

What happens if you use artist 1; artist 2 (in dBpa) or artist1\\artist2 (in mp3tag) in the artist sort tag, but use a single entry artist1, artist2 (with a comma) in the artist tag?

The original multiple artist entry was so searches would pick either artist, not for display completeness.

Another possibility is artist1; artist2; artist1, artist2 in the artist tag, with no artist sort tag.??

[Spymaster]

In my ongoing attempt to tidy up my artist database, I've been slowly dividing multiple "album artists" and "track artists" with a semi-colon "; " rather than a ", " or "&".

This works brilliantly when searching for, or browsing artists with Hi-Fi Cast and Cambridge Audio's StreamMagic. But, to my dismay, when tracks are actually PLAYING, StreamMagic only displays the first artist. By extension, the panel on the front of the Cambridge CXNv2 displays the same thing. So "When You Believe" by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston (equally billed artists) suddenly becomes Mariah Carey only. I have thousands of similar tracks.

Hi-Fi cast displays all artists perfectly.

I've raised this with Cambridge but it's like banging my head against a wall. They're grudgingly treating it like a "nice to have" new feature request rather than a significant flaw in their design.

I have 2 questions:

1. Is there a clever setting hidden away in Asset that would force these devices to display multiple artists correctly?

2. Could dbpoweramp liaise with these companies to ensure that the best possible experience is available to customers - that the data provided by Asset is received, interpreted and displayed fully?