Bugzilla – Bug 2121
Each Artist In A Compilation Album Listed In It's Own Album
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:36:01 UTC
That is: if I have an album called "Songs" which has 4 tracks by 3 different artists, then if I go to "Browse Albums" I will find 3 different entries for the same album; 2 entries with a single song / artist each, and one entry with the 2 songs that are by the same artist. My compilation album settings are: Group compilation albums together Don't include compilation artists in artist list Use TPE2 / BAND ID3v2 as "ALBUMARTIST" (Also, for the Group Discs setting, I have "Treat multi-disc sets as a single album.")
Paul - I just checked in a large update to the Various Artists / Compilation handling about an hour ago. If you're using Subversion - please update. Otherwise it will be in the 2005-09-14 build. What does your directory structure look like for one of these albums?
I've submitted a fix for this in subversion change 4282 It will be in the 2005-09-15 nightly
Unfortunately, as of the 2005-09-19 nightly, it still creates a different album for each artist in a multi-artist disc. My directory structure is: /Artist/Album/song.flac This means that there are indeed multiple directories for the same album, one under each artist in the album. However, I'd at least like an option to group these together, so I can play the album in it's entirety.
There is no way for us to automatically group albums with a directory structure like that. If you add a COMPILATION=1 tag to those files, I can work with that however.
Paul - I just checked in subversion change 4442 - which will prefer the COMPILATION=1 tag over any artist match for finding a matching album during scan. It will be in the 2005-09-28 nightly Could you give that a try? Thanks.
Hmm - as of the 10-1 nightly, it still creates multiple albums in the Browse by Albums view...
Dan: here's a file on tank that exhibits this problem; Title: O Little Town of Bethlehem Artist: Young Fresh Fellows Album: A Lump of Coal Genre: Christmas Track: 8 File Format: MP3 Duration: 2:55 File Length: 4,015,555 Bytes Bitrate: 183kbps VBR Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz ID3 Tag Version: ID3v2.2.0 Location: /var/music/music/Young Fresh Fellows/A Lump of Coal/08 O Little Town of Bethlehem.mp3 (Download) Date Modified: Wednesday, September 14, 2005, 10:23:05 AM
You need to set the Compilation bit using iTunes, Tag & Rename, etc. If these are FLAC or Ogg files - add COMPILATION=1 to the meta tags. Wipe & Rescan. The reason this is happening is that files from this album are in scattered directories.
Thanks, this fixed it.