[SOLVED]: Need for some help: double album entries in BubbleUPnP

[mf_im_fb@hotmail.de]

Hello,

maybe someone give me some advice how to get rid of double album entries in BubbleUPnp.

Where I am:
I've installed a containerized Mimimserver on a Linux server using Podman (comparable to docker).
For now I'm on the starter version for testing purposes.
I have a couple of hundreds of music albums baught and ripped; partly as FLAC, partly as MP3. Each Album is placed in its own folder on the filesystem.
I can stream music with no problems and I'm quite happy with the sound compared to minidlna.

What is the problem:
I see a double entry for most of the albums with exact the same content. I've baught quite a while back ADELE 21 and I can see 2 entries on BubbleUPnP.
Only a couple of days back I've baught Layers of Life from the Emil Brandquist Trio which is only shown once as expected.

What I have done so far:
I've been searching this forum and I came accross that this might be a problem with Id3 tags not correct set.
So I took ffmpeg / ffprobe for reading the Id3 tags, looking for some differencies and than correcting the Id3 tags.
Maybe I'm blindfold but I can't see any real differencies between those two albums.

Here's what I got for ADELLE 21

Code:

/Music/ADELE/21 # ffmpeg -hide_banner -i 01-01-\ Rolling\ In\ The\ Deep\ \[Explicit].mp3
Input #0, mp3, from '01-01- Rolling In The Deep [Explicit].mp3':
  Metadata:
    title           : Rolling In The Deep [Explicit]
    artist          : Adele
    album           : 21
    genre           : Pop
    composer        : Paul Epworth
    track           : 1/11
    disc            : 1/1
    comment         : Amazon.com Song ID: 220423087
    copyright       : 2011 XL Recordings Ltd.
    date            : 2011
    album_artist    : Adele
    encoder         : Lavf60.16.100
    id3v2_priv.www.amazon.com: \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00​\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00​\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00​\x00\x00\x00\x0
  Duration: 00:03:48.13, start: 0.025056, bitrate: 138 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc60.31
  Stream #0:1: Video: png, rgb24(pc, gbr/unknown/unknown), 600x600 [SAR 1:1 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn (attached pic)
    Metadata:
      comment         : Cover (front)

Here's what I got for Layer of Life

Code:

/Music/Emil Brandqvist Trio/Layers of Life # ffmpeg -hide_banner -i 01\ -\ Still\ Awake.mp3
Input #0, mp3, from '01 - Still Awake.mp3':
  Metadata:
    title           : Still Awake
    artist          : Emil Brandqvist Trio
    album           : Layers of Life
    genre           : Jazz
    composer        : Emil Brandqvist
    track           : 1/13
    disc            : 1/1
    album_artist    : Emil Brandqvist Trio
    comment         : Amazon.com Song ID: 200000487910960
    copyright       : SKIP RECORDS
    date            : 2023
    id3v2_priv.www.amazon.com: \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00​\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00​\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00​\x00\x00\x00\x0
  Duration: 00:04:42.02, start: 0.025056, bitrate: 257 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 255 kb/s
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc58.35
  Stream #0:1: Video: mjpeg (Baseline), yuvj420p(pc, bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 600x600 [SAR 1:1 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn (attached pic)
    Metadata:
      comment         : Cover (front)

I'm sorry but I can't see any difference between within the data structure, only within the data itself.

So I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Any help to find a solution is highly appreciated.

Best regards

MF

[simbun]

(21-01-2024 14:15)mf_im_fb@hotmail.de Wrote:  What is the problem:
I see a double entry for most of the albums with exact the same content. I've baught quite a while back ADELE 21 and I can see 2 entries on BubbleUPnP.
Only a couple of days back I've baught Layers of Life from the Emil Brandquist Trio which is only shown once as expected.

Just to confirm, when you click on the top index entry in BubbleUPnP called '[n] albums' you see 2 copies of '21' and they're both complete (the tracks aren't split between the 2 albums)?

If you browse to track 1 of the first Adele 21 album and click on the vertical ellipis, then select Show Metadata, at the bottom of the resulting window will be the path to the file on MinimServer. If you repeat the same for Track 1 of the second 21 album is the path different (including the file extension)?

Have you checked the MinimServer log for any error messages (MinimWatch > Show log)?

Have you tried a full rescan (set 'Advanced > startupScan' to 'full' then perform a rescan)?

[mf_im_fb@hotmail.de]

... oh yeah, these quite solf confident Linux guys...

(21-01-2024 15:27)simbun Wrote:  ...
If you browse to track 1 of the first Adele 21 album and click on the vertical ellipis, then select Show Metadata, at the bottom of the resulting window will be the path to the file on MinimServer. If you repeat the same for Track 1 of the second 21 album is the path different (including the file extension)?

These leads me imediately to the solution.
Copying on Linux leads sometimes to a second path when you're omitting some "/'.
I've got a folder /Music and a second folder /Music/Music with the same content. I thought I've deleted this folder, but...

After deleting this second folder and rescanning the library everything works fine.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP

Best regards