Bugzilla – Bug 2208
With MMM enabled Various Artist tracks are split across multiple albums
Last modified: 2011-03-16 04:19:51 UTC
If I have MMM enabled and perform a "Clear library and rescan everything" then the Various Artists albums that get found are built incorrectly. I find that for some albums (and it seems to be consistently the same ones) the tracks for the album get split across multiple albums with the same name. If I disable MMM, then all get classified ok. e.g. Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) 1. How Insensitive (Original Mix) from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Sun Trust 3. A Loop In Time (Banco De Gaia Remix) from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Wally Brill Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) 2. Daydreaming from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Rollercone 4. Drama Of Japan from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by La Roca 5. Cairo (Duke Monster Remix) from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Great Barrier 6. Inshalla (Ya Salam) from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Angel Tears 7. After from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Dzihan and Kamien 8. Felicidade from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Suba 9. Logozo from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Sidestepper 10. Escravos De Jo from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Kerrie Chandler and Joe Clausell 11. The String Thing from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Soul Ascendants 12. New World from Buddha Bar II - Claude Challe - Party (Disc 2 of 2) by Attaboy
David - is this still happening with the latest 6.2 nightly? Thanks.
I still have the same problem with last nights 6.2 build.
Can you try marking one of those albums as a Compilation? Using iTunes or the like, set the Compilation flag. If these are FLAC files, add the tag: COMPILATION=1
I then get this error and slimserver crashes (I'm using flac): Slim::DataStores::DBI::Album can't SELECT id, title, titlesort, contributor, compilation, year, artwork_path, disc, discc, musicmagic_mixable FROM albums WHERE compilation = ? AND disc = ? AND title = ? : Cannot call execute with a reference (ARRAY(0x945c910)) at /home/usr_local/slimserver/Slim/DataStores/DBI/DBIStore.pm line 1539 2005-10-16 17:06:34.0553 closing dbh with active statement handles
Are you running the latest 6.2 nightly? Can you run metaflac --export-tags-to=FILENAME on one of the files in question?
TITLE=1-800 Ming ARTIST=Brothers Love Dubs ALBUM=John Digweed - Global Underground 019 (Disc 1 of 2) DATE=2000 GENRE=Techno TRACKNUMBER=11 DISCNUMBER=1
Ok - I don't see the compilation flag in there. Run: metaflac --set-tag="COMPILATION=1" *.flac But that doesn't explain your crash.
Sorry, I had removed the tag again so that slimserver would run. So, the info below is what I see without the tag. So, I started again. I downloaded the latest slimserver (I had been running Thursday's). I set my music folder to just the Digweed album to speed up testing. Tried this without the compilation tag, and no crash, and then with the tag and a restart and now no crash either. All of the above was without MMM. I then started MMM and restarted. Interestingly, it very quickly scans the one album (in the single music folder) and puts it in the various artists folder. But it then goes on to find every album on my disc that is registered with MMM, even though these albums are not in the music folder. And at the very end of this scan adds all of these into the Various Artists too. Anyway, the end result is that adding the COMPILATION=1 tag fixes things. Is this the solution you are proposing? or was it a debugging aid? It is just that Tag & Rename does not support the COMPILATION tag, so marking all my compilation albums this way will not be particularly convenient.
This is the solution I'm proposing. I've already sent an email to the Tag & Rename people last week about adding a compilation box. From: Evgeny Efimov <evgeny@softpointer.com> Subject: Re: Additional FLAC support Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:14:33 +0400 Hello Dan, Sorry for delay. In next update I will add 'Part of a compilation' flag support (COMPILATION for flac, ogg and ape).
Ok, that sounds good then. Thanks.