Bugzilla – Bug 2976
Albums with same name - tracks get merged
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:30:49 UTC
I have two albums called "The Collection", one by Mary Black and one by Ultravox. If I use "Browse Albums" in the web interface I only get one occurrence of "The Collection". If I choose that item I then see my tracks merged: Home / Browse Albums / The Collection 1 album with 28 songs by 2 artists. All Songs 1. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes from The Collection by Ultravox 1. The Moon And St. Christopher from The Collection by Mary Black 2. Hymn from The Collection by Ultravox 2. No Frontiers from The Collection by Mary Black 3. Babes In The Wood from The Collection by Mary Black 3. The Thin Wall from The Collection by Ultravox 4. Carolina Rua from The Collection by Mary Black 4. The Voice from The Collection by Ultravox 5. Katie from The Collection by Mary Black 5. Vienna from The Collection by Ultravox 6. Columbus from The Collection by Mary Black 6. Passing Strangers from The Collection by Ultravox 7. Adam At The Window from The Collection by Mary Black etc. I'm runing 6.2.1+ (a January nightly) on Ubuntu with MySql as the database.
server settings->behaviour, Common Album titles. put the common titles in there and then the scan will separate albums by name AND the directory that they are in.
Hmmm...not convinced. Yes "The Collection" is a common title, but surely Slim shouldn't be merging the two when I'm browsing by album, it should keep them separate.
Common titles is a feature that allows you to specify album titles that you have which may be comme among more than one artist. As such, that is EXACTLY what you have. I have offered a suggestion to try, that should fix your issue. I suggest you at least try it. As many users claim to have some need to put songs from the same album all over the place, then the server db will merge ANY tracks using the same album name. Common album titles is the preference used to specify which album titles should be restricted to one folder. Thus, an album of the same name in a different location will be considered different.
Dan: is this a hard thing to fix for 6.2.2? My "Greatest Hits" album has 178 tracks in it.
Created attachment 1198 [details] Patch to remove Common Album Titles, and use contributor as a search criteria Dean - please test this patch (against 6.2.2). It removes the "Common Albums Titles" hack, and if the album isn't explictly marked as a compilation - will use the primary contributor in addition to the album title as search criteria for determining if a new album object should be created, or an old one reused. This should work for 99% of the users out there. There is a drawback however - for albums that each track has a different primary contributor _AND_ the album is not explitly marked as a compilation (iTunes, Tag & Rename, metaflac) - a duplicate album will be created for each track in that album. Instead of continuing to put in hacks and prefs that confuse users, I believe this is much more straightforward. The answer for the duplicate problem is "Tag those albums as compilations". The drawback there is a VA album that has the same name as another VA album. I'm not sure how to get around that one. Suggestions welcome. But I think we have the common case fixed here.
not a showstopper
Fixed in change 7270 - will be in the next 6.3 nightly. Already in 6.5 You'll need to wipe & rescan. Thanks
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