Special characters in flac file names cause multiple "albums" to be indexed [released]
asked 2019-09-08 19:04:17 +0200
I'm running 3.1.0.11 on Xperia X and in this version or a recent update, the Media player started indexing music files names with special characters like ' or [, and ] to separate albums. It did not do this in earlier versions
In other words, if 4 out of 10 tracks on an album contain one of these characters in the file name, 2 albums will show in the Artist list: one album containing the 4 tracks with special chars, and the other album containing the non-special char tracks.
The characters don't cause issues in the actual tags of the audio files, just when used in the file names.
Very easy to reproduce: just add or an apostrophe to an audio file name and reindex. Go to the Artist menu and notice you'll have two albums, one with just the altered track. Remove the apostrophe, and the it will reindex to one album.
This bug is very aggravating because you have to manually edit multiple file names to remove the characters so they all end up under one album on the device. Hopefully it can be fixed soon. I have not tested MP3 to see if they have the same issue, just FLAC.
I'm using Xperia X 3.1.0.11 also. Names containing ' don't cause any problems to me, for example: 13 - Let's Make the Water Turn Black.ogg. I have only ogg-files. And adding [ to the file name didn't cause any problems either.
hsjpekka ( 2019-09-09 00:36:49 +0200 )editI'm using Xperia X 3.1.0.11 too. I can reproduce this behaviour using mp3-files (don't use any other audio formats).
AndreasSchuette ( 2019-09-09 14:36:33 +0200 )editThis might be related to this: Music not grouped by album
rozgwi ( 2019-09-09 15:18:00 +0200 )edit