Grouping files correctly in album

[Laurent Baum]

Johannes Schwall wrote:
> Dear amarok developers!
> 
> Amarok is by far my favourite player, but there's a small glitch that
> you might be able to help me with. I just downloaded the new Mercedes
> Benz Mixed Tape (no. 19) from www.mercedes-benz.tv/mixedtape and
> encountered a curious behaviour which has bothered me before:
> 
> I copy the folder with the MP3 files to my music directory. Then I
> tell Amarok to refresh the database and, as expected, after that the
> new songs are available. Unfortunately, all the files have different
> information (it's mostly the artist's website) in the album field, but
> from my perspective they all belong to the same album. So, I change
> this to "mixed tape 19" and expect Amarok to show them belonging to
> the same album afterwards. But it doesn't. Each song is shown to
> belong to the album "mixed tape 19", but there seem to be 10 different
> albums with that name. Meaning: While playing the song, the info field
> about the album does not show the other songs.
> 
> So, I assume that either I am doing something the wrong way, or
> there's some hidden information in the MP3 files telling Amarok that
> they belong to different albums, or it's a bug in Amarok. Anyway ...
> what can I do? It's nothing really bad, but it doesn't make me feel
> good about listening to these songs. :-(
> 
> By the way: I'm using Amarok 1.4.8 (KDE 3.5.7 "release 72.6" openSUSE 10.3).
> 
> Thanks for the great work!
> 
> Johannes
> 
> 

Hi, I have encountered this amarok behaviour aswell, maybe a dev can 
explain the matter... My workaround is to alway tag the albums I intend 
to add to my music archive with picard (musicbrainz.org) and easytag 
before letting amarok rescan the collection.

Laurent Baum