Author Topic: Album view adds albums with identical album name to now playing.  (Read 811 times)

tfk

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Hi

I use the Albums view, grouped by Album artist.
Sorting by: Album artist, year, album

Album one tags:

Artist: Perahia
Album Artist:  Mozart
Album: The Piano Concertos
Year: 1985
Genre: Classical

Album two tags

Artist: Barenboim
Album Artist:  Mozart
Album: The Piano Concertos
Year: 1987
Genre: Classical

When adding one of these albums, using any method, ie dobbel clicking cover, both albums (actually, I have three), both, or all albums with the same album title is loaded into the now playing view.  So, the first 3 tracks, will lock like this: artist 1 track 1, artist 2 track 1, artist 3 track 1, and so on.

This does not happen if I use Album and track as display in the main window.
I'm on v 3.5.8292

Thanks
Last Edit: October 27, 2022, 07:03:39 PM by tfk

Steven

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given album name and album artist are not uniquely identifying an album, in the Sorting/Grouping preferences are you including Year (yyyy) in the definition of an album?

tfk

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Yes,  year is included in sorting.  Also tried year (yyyy), but the result is the same.
The albums also share the composer info, wich are identical. The only two fields that difrenciates the albums, are Artist and Year.

Also, after checking more carefully, the same thing happens in Album and track view.

What happens when two or more similar albums are are added into now playing:
Only the cover art of the album dobbel clicked is displayed, and on track change (song end or play next),  the tracks from the unwanted albums are skipped, even if they are present in the now playing list.

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tfk

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hiccup

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Yes: Album Artist/Year (yyyy)/Album
You answered: "Yes, year is included in sorting."
But the question is if you have set it in Preferences > Sorting/Grouping.

tfk

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Yes: Album Artist/Year (yyyy)/Album
You answered: "Yes, year is included in sorting."
But the question is if you have set it in Preferences > Sorting/Grouping.
Yes, it is added  in Preferences under Sorting and Grouping.

hiccup

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Then perhaps the tracks in these two albums are not consistently tagged?

To check:
- select all tracks of album #1
- open the Tag Editor
- check if the fields: Album, Album Artist, Year are all showing the same value
- if they are not, the tag field will show 'mixed' instead of a uniform value and you will need to correct that

repeat for album #2

tfk

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Then perhaps the tracks in these two albums are not consistently tagged?

To check:
- select all tracks of album #1
- open the Tag Editor
- check if the fields: Album, Album Artist, Year are all showing the same value
- if they are not, the tag field will show 'mixed' instead of a uniform value and you will need to correct that

repeat for album #2
The album(s) and all the tracks ar properly and concistantly tagged.

hiccup

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Not sure what's going on then.

This might be a good moment to share some screenshots of how you have set:
- Albums view configuration
- Preferences > Sorting/grouping
- Sorting rules

Also, if you single click one of these albums, is it showing the correct tracks for that album only?


hiccup

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This is explained in the first entry of the post.
Well, your answers have not been completely clear and precise, so I thought screenshots might help.
You also didn't answer my last question.

No problem, good luck, hopefully somebody else can solve your problem.

tfk

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If I single click on the album(s) in Album view, the track layout is shown,  correctly,  in a drop down window (as specified in album view options).

if I single click on the play icon in the same view, the same happens as with a dobbel click: the album is added to Play Now, together with the other album(s) with the same album title.

I'm not really shure what screenshots would contribute, but if needed, I'll upload any screenshot that would be needed.