Albums are diplayed in wrong Artist because they share the exact same name

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Production

Issue description

Hi everybody!

New user of Symfonium, I have a small problem.

Artists Enrico Pieranunzi and John Coltrane have two albums with the exact same title: Ballads, Live in Japan.
In Enrico Pieranunzi’s albums, only his albums are displayed, as it should be.
In John Coltrane’s albums, all his albums are displayed plus the two of Enrico Pieranunzi (Ballads, Live in Paris). That’s the problem!
File names follow this format: Artist - Album - Track - Title
For example John Coltrane - Ballads - 06 - What’s New
The metadata (tags) for the four albums are as shown below.

ALBUM Ballads
ALBUMARTIST Enrico Pieranunzi
ARTIST Enrico Pieranunzi

ALBUM Live in Japan
ALBUMARTIST Enrico Pieranunzi
ARTIST Enrico Pieranunzi

ALBUM Ballads
ALBUM ARTIST John Coltrane
ALBUMARTIST John Coltrane
ARTIST John Coltrane

ALBUM Live in Japan
ALBUMARTIST John Coltrane
ARTIST John Coltrane

Any idea?

ver.15.1.0 (127812)

Device type

Phone

Media provider

Local device

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open app
  2. Go to All Artists
  3. Select John Coltrane

Additional information

The other apps I use (Poweramp, AIMP, Foobar) display properly the albums of the two artists.

Screenshots

Symf -Pieranunzi.jpg
Symf -Pieranunzi.jpg400×889 123 KB
Symf -Coltrane.jpg
Symf -Coltrane.jpg400×889 170 KB

I searched existing issues first

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I understand that logs are mandatory

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Log upload name / description

Coltrane-Pieranunzi same album names

2

Be sure to check the album split setting in the provider. You probably changed it.

3

Thanks for the answer!

Probably you mean Settings > Manage Media providers > Local Device (my selected provider) > Edit > Split album by.

I think I never touched this. Anyway, in this menu Folder, MusicBrainz ID, Album version are selected. Given that I only play files from my phone card, I think that I should select Album artist and maybe Folder. Is that right?

4

If everything is in the same folder then yes you need to add album artist as a split value.

5

It worked! :grinning_face:

Thanks a lot!

I suppose MusicBrainz ID shouldn’t be selected. What about Album version?

6

It depends entirely on your library.

If you don’t use those tags, then it doesn’t hurt to leave the settings checked. If you do use them, those two should be helpful to further split albums.

MusicBrainzID is added by software like MusicBrainz Picard. It is a unique ID for each album, to ensure that different albums with the same name don’t join.

Album version is used to identify… Well, different versions of an album. Could be Re-mastered, re-release, whatever.

Again, if these are blank in your library then there’s no harm leaving the setting as-is.

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Thank you all for your answers! :grinning_face: