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I have been trying to figure out why one of my albums appears twice in the album art view.
It is because one of the tracks has a different genre in the metadata but I can't find any mention of moOde 4.4 using genre to determine which tracks belong to an album.
The artist list is ordered by AlbumArtist
Am I missing something daft?
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Post the values of the Genre, Artist, Album Artist and Album tags for Track #1 in the two albums in your example. I assume rest of tracks in each album have same values for these tags.
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You are welcome to zip up the album and send me download link and I'll have a look but either way the solution is to ensure that all tracks belonging to an Album have the same Genre.
Tracks with the same album tag but different genres will definitely mess up the Library.
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I agree that compilation albums containing tracks with different genres is legit. I don't have any like that but I'm aware that other users have some. Unfortunately that tagging breaks the Library structure. Compilation albums in general are messy since there is no standard tag indicating that a track is part of a compilation.
The Lib hierarchy is created by scanning the MPD database and then building an array that contains the structured data. This array is then sent to the client and loaded into the Browser for presentation via the Library list and albums panels.
-Tim