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2019-11-14 14:58:15 +0200
Inside Tracker, the album name and album artist name are used along with the release date to generate the album identifier. The date is a fairly recent addition to try to avoid album mixing, see the discussion here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773697
We haven't updated tracker in a long time, because they removed support for album art so we'll have to find an alternative solution for that. If you noticed a change in indexing between versions, then that could be because some particular tracks weren't reindexed in a long time, and became separated when that happened. The album ordering by date doesn't affect this - that's just for displaying each artist's album covers in the correct order of release, and only on the artist album page.
However, there could be extraction bugs at work here too with certain file formats and unusual tag types, so it'd help to see what's going on in each case if you could query tracker for the album information it has extracted from your tracks. You can do this in the terminal with this command:
tracker extract <filename>
Towards the end of the output, you should see a 'nmm:musicAlbum' field that contains an encoded string. That's what we use to identify the album, so test a couple on each side of your split and see what the difference is. I had a quick look at my collection and for three split albums, two were rogue date fields and the other was differing album artist tags.
Confirming for Sailfish X (Xperia X), also 3.0.3.10. each album is displayed multiple times for the number of tracks it contains.
rozgwi ( 2019-06-18 18:12:28 +0200 )editFor me it seems as if the problem above all applies to AAC audio files, MP3 is not affected that much.
I have latest update on the j1 and it's working flawlessy for me...
247 ( 2019-06-18 18:29:05 +0200 )editI have copied the music directory of iTunes. It works fine on my Intex Aqua Fish with Sailfish 3.0.1.11. The files are MPEG-4 audio files with .m4a ending.
jsommer ( 2019-06-18 18:50:39 +0200 )editI had the same problem before, at least with Greatest Hits-albums with songs tagged with their individual year. I had as many "albums" as there were songs with unique year-tags. I learned that the year-tag is supposed to be used for the whole album, not individual songs (there is some other tag one can use for that). After deleting all year-tags on every album with songs with different years, everything works great. I'm on Xperia Hossa 3.0.3.10.
Lars Maria ( 2019-06-18 20:38:36 +0200 )editConfirmed for 3.0.3.10 on XA2+ Music folder symlinked to SD card. Now each song is its own album.
Kopekenscheich ( 2019-06-21 11:23:59 +0200 )edit