Howdy, Trying to clean up my music collection and I'm running into a vexing problem with Albums that have multiple artists. The problem is a single Album will show up multiple times in the "Album" view of the web display (or player).
Example Problem: Album: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Original Soundtrack It has 4 different artists (Strauss, Legiti, etc), all the with same album name. When I view the album list on the web display or device, I see 4 Album entries: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Original Soundtrack by Aram Khachaturian 2001: A Space Odyssey - Original Soundtrack by Gyorgy Ligeti 2001: A Space Odyssey - Original Soundtrack by Johann Strauss 2001: A Space Odyssey - Original Soundtrack by Richard Strauss Each one only has 1 or 2 songs. My music is encoded in m4a and I've confirmed that the only tags that are set on all the titles is @nam, @ART, @alb, @gen, trkn and @too. While trkn and @ART vary between tracks, all the rest are exactly the same (I've cut and pasted them to be triple sure). There is no compilation flag nor is there an albumartist flag. When I click on one of the above, the header in the web display actually just shows the "2001: A Space Odyssey - Original Soundtrack" so I assume it really does know the album by the "simpler" name. But it is making multiple album entries for it (if I use the CLI interface to fetch albums and ID's, I see 4 entries with 4 different IDs for the above) I have a number (in fact, most multi-artist disks) that show up this way. It makes playing an album a huge pain (especially for disks with 20+ tracks, all by different artists). I've checked the "Group by artist" option both ways (though I don't think it's meant for this) with a full clean and rebuild library between and nothing changes. Any suggestions on how to "coalesce" the albums into a single entry on the Albums listing? Or even pointers? I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks, Gerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerry_duprey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4419 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100845 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
