Weird layout of local collection in 2.4.x

[Jörg Schaible]

Hi Myriam,

Myriam Schweingruber wrote:

> Hi Jörg,
> 
> first of all, sorry for the lat answer.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible at gmx.de>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
> ...
>> However, I have suddenly albums in the various artists that have not been
>> there with Amarok 2.3.2. As it turns out, the titles of all albums with
>> same name are now grouped together although the tags for interpret and
>> album interpret are set correctly. E.g. I have suddenly an album "Up" in
>> the various artists where the titles of the albums with this name of
>> Peter Gabriel, R.E.M. and Shania Twain are mixed up (sorted
>> alphabetically by track number and name). This prevents completely the
>> selection of the individual album for the playlist. I have quite some of
>> this annoying clashes (albums with name "Time", "Eden", "Zeitgeist",
>> "Harpe Celtique", "Elemental", "Simply the best", "Hysteria", "Solo").
>>
>> Another bunch of "new" albums for the various artists appear. All those
>> are affected where the interpret is the same for all titles of the album,
>> the album interpret is empty, but the composer may vary.
>>
>> A manual run of the amarokcollectionscanner proofs that the tag info was
>> properly read. Is there anything else I can do?
>>
> 
> The Album Artist tag is needed to distinguish albums with one Artist
> only (set in the Album Artist tag) or various artists (album artist
> tag empty).
> 
> There were some glitches with that in earlier versions but it should
> work correctly now in Amarok 2.5, I suggest you upgrade as 2.5 is out
> since almost 6 months now.
> 
> Regards, Myriam.

thanks for the answer, but Amarok 2.5.x is no way better in this regard. We 
already discussed in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216759.

Cheers,
Jörg