media player: duplicate albums

asked 2016-12-30 16:22:51 +0300

Ruben De Smet
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updated 2016-12-30 19:24:16 +0300

Hi!

I've got certain album names double; e.g. vinyl vs. CD, or more importantly: Within Temptation -- Frozen and Delain -- Frozen (two different bands, with the same album name).

In both cases, their music brainz ID is in the metadata, and in the second case, the Artist is different.

In both cases, the albums get mixed up when going from Artists->[an artist]->[an album]. It shows both albums, sorted on track number.

Example of different artists-same album name:

Example of same artist, same album name, but different releases (I select Artists->Delain->Frozen):

I think this can be solved by preferring selecting an album based on a disc id; I have my albums tagged with a musicbrainz release-id.

Partially selecting an album based on an the artist is not the way to go, because compilations (different artists, same album) will not work anymore that way.

I did refresh the media database, but that's probably not the problem. The problem lies in the way that mediaplayer groups albums; not that mediaplayer doesn't find tracks.
Running newest version on Jolla 1, which is 2.0.5.6 here.
Files are opus, which is basically an ogg container with another codec. They play perfectly.