Author Topic: Album/Track Mismatching  (Read 517 times)

xyresic

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Hello,

I recently moved over to a new computer and installed MusicBee there.  I'm noticing that MusicBee (latest version) is importing albums from different artists but with the same album name as the exact same album.  For example, if I have an artists named "bob" and an artist named "jill" both with an album titled "fun", MusicBee is randomly selecting one them, say "jill" as the artist with two tracks, both titled "fun".  If I select one of the tracks and change the album name to "different", then it properly separates them as different albums.

I didn't have this issue on my old system.  All of the mp3s are full album (an hour long track of all songs for example), and I don't want anything aggregated into a tracklist.  Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere?  Why is MusicBee doing this?

xyresic

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Ugh, I found it.  I was going crazy looking for the setting. 

It's under preferences, sorting/grouping then under the grouping section.  For some reason it defaulted to blank for the first field defining an album, and album name in the second field.  So it was ignoring the Artist.  I also added year in the third field to ensure rereleases aren't flagged as the same album.

Apologies, not a bug...but a strange default to say the least.

hiccup

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...but a strange default to say the least.
Album Artist is the default for the first field.
You (or somebody else) must have blanked it at some point in time.