Feature Request: Search to correctly return compilation albums in Artist results

The search results returned within the Android app should behave as they do in the desktop app and return ‘Album Artist’ within the Artists results for compilations...

Any compilation albums have the ‘Album Artist’ value effectivly excluded from Artist search results in the App. This is new behaviour for the app since the ‘May 2024’ release. Prior to this behaviour was correct. It remains correct in the Desktop app.

Details:

•  On searching for ‘Various’/’Various Artists’ the Windows desktop application it, correctly, does what it always has done and returns ‘Varions Artists’ in the ‘Artists’ search results:

• However, when the same search is performed from the Android app there are no results under ‘Artists’:

• All other results (Albums/Songs/Composers ect.) are consistent & correct across both Android and Winsows apps.

• Albums are correctly tagged:

Capitalisation, varying index grouping between album artist/compilation/both options or removing the ‘Compilation’ tag has no impact on the behaviour - except removing the ‘Compilation’ tag results in duplicate albums for each individual artist - as would be expected. 

However:

• Tagging a non-compilation album with ‘Album Artist’ only:

  

  has the correct result:

  

  

   

So it would seem there is an issue processing albums with the ‘Compilation’ tag set for searches initiated from the Android app… I would guess this is also true of iThing apps too? 

Please can this be corrected, maybe alongside the other outstanding issue:

Thankyou for your time...