Bugzilla – Bug 1378
Allow bypass of "Common Album Titles"
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:18:39 UTC
I would like the option of treating all titles the way "Common Album Titles" are treated. My collection is managed by iTunes so I am confident that my tracks are organized by folder. At this point I have two albums called "Slide" and two called "Strange Angels" -- I can think of three called "Let It Be". I imagine this can be implemented several ways - allowing wildcards, with a checkbox or with a special title such as "All"
I too would like this: I am having to add an increasing number of album titles to the list as I find they have 'duplicated' names. I then have to rescan the db to seperate them out. This takes a while since I've got in excess of 900 albums (and finding more all the time ;) ) and a very slow server. I have now had to add the following to 'common titles' The Singles Collection Tourist Everything Must Go Us The problem (as I see it) is that doing it this way would screw up Compilations since they would then be split into a number of one or two track albums. Note that in the event of a db containing a 'common title' which applied to a various artist and a single artist album, the existing code would be unable to correctly seperate the two albums. I therefore suggest using another Tag. Eg. Use the "Album" and "Album Artist" tags to define what slimserver calls an album. If the "Album Artist" tag is not set, we would automatically fall back to the current treatment. It should then be easy to set the "Album Artist" tag as "Various" for compilations using a Taging program, and to "Artist" for the others.
Dan: does VA make this better?
*** Bug 2007 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Why not an option to treat folders as albums for the purpose of differentiating like-titled albums? Then for the 95% of users who group albums into discrete folders this becomes a non-issue and the use of Common Album Titles becomes unnecessary. From the looks of the albums table, you'd need an additional column to do this, storing the path (or url) for the album folder.
In answer to "does VA make this better?"� it actually makes it worse (in my experience) because then the duplicate Albums are combined as "Various artists" regardless of whether you list the titles under "Common Album Titles" or not. I like Jim Zolx's suggestion to have an option for treating folders as albums.
I've commited a fix as subversion change 4111, which has a checkbox (which defaults to off), which will work for 99% of the people out there. Only check the box if you have a Multiple Artist Album with a Common Title.