AlbumArtist Issues - creates more Albums

[Pastim]

(26-09-2014 20:45)simoncn Wrote:  

(26-09-2014 19:51)Pastim Wrote:  This works, but has an unfortunate side effect of defeating the 'mergeFolderAlbums' logic. I therefore end up with multiple albums wherever I have split an album between folders, since the 'same AlbumArtist' logic fails.

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Is there a solution?

The mergeFolderAlbums logic depends on matching a single AlbumArtist value or identical Artist values. By aliasing AlbumArtist to MainArtist, you have disabled MinimServer's ability to match on AlbumArtist. MinimServer should still be able to match on Artist if all tracks of the album have the same Artist value(s).

You have two options:

1) Create another tag such as MergeArtist to control album merging for albums whose tracks don't have identical Artist values. You should alias MergeArtist to AlbumArtist and not put AlbumArtist in indexTags.

2) Put each album in a single folder.

I feared as much. Neither of the options works for me.

I can't see myself creating a new tag on over a thousand (or two thousand depending...) albums to sort out a problem that only seems to affect minimserver. I only use an alias because of the multiple albumartist issue, which seems to be specific to this server. It is not feasible for me to assign Artists to tracks that don't involve those Artists.

I have spent many hundreds of hours filing music the way it makes sense to me (even if to no one else). Re-organising would be really difficult and would muck up my plot (daft though it may be).

However, many thanks for the quick response.