Anyway, another noticeable thing is the fact, the Album Artist has disappeared! You look under the "Artist & Album Artist" node as those artists that are Album Artists have pluses like normal, the tree is working perfectly fine in regards to it actually. It's when you look in the Album Artist column on the tracklist or in the properties sheet that you notice the problem, it's not showing any Album Artists in either of these spots.
There also seems to be a problem with the Composer Node with this converted Database. It would appear, only those songs with Composers matching that tracks artist exactly, is showing. Thus, a track with a composer such as "Aaron Zigman" which is also that track's artist will show, but if the composer field is "Aaron Zigman/Someone Else" or "Aaron Zigman, Someone Else" etc, then these aren't displayed. If this makes any sense, finding this one hard to explain.
There is also an issue with the Album Node & "Unknown Albums." You look under the Album Node and will see the "Unknown" node per usual, but right underneath this node I have a second node that shows the exact same content as the first, but the name is empty.
"Maintain Library -> Compact Database" doesn't have any effect on any of these issues. A "Add/Rescan" on the other hand seems to remedy every problem except the Album Node issue. Even looking past the Album Node problem, having to Rescan isn't exactly the "smooth" transfer from 2.5 to 3.0 people are going to expect. :\
Non of these issues are present in a clean database scan, so must be something directly related to the conversion and not an overall problem with the database structure or whatever.
A small notation, when doing the Rescan, I stopped it after a couple thousand tracks so I could skip to a folder with "Multiple; Artists" to test if it fixed that, when canceling the scan, I was presented with a window for "Unavailable Tracks," basically listed everything in the Database that had not just been scanned, even though the files ARE there and I can even go to them in the library and play them without problem.
If all of this is confusion to read, or you just want to look into it further to see exactly what's going on, I do have copies of several databases I could supply:
MediaMonkey 2.5 Database
MediaMonkey 3.0B1 Database - 2.5 Conversion (Untouched)
MediaMonkey 3.0B1 Database - 2.5 Conversion (Rescanned)
MediaMonkey 3.0B1 Database - Clean Scan
Just let me know if you need/want them.
On a unrelated note, with the new Multiple Artist deal, any chance to see the "Find More from Same -> Artist" option tweaked to better support this? Something like:
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Find More from Same -> Artist -> 2Pac
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