Need a fix: albums with same name are merged without notice

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Today, I imported five albums and only found four in the library.
I checked and all albums were in the folder to be synced.

So, I finally discovered that the missing album was merged with another existing album with the same name.
I understood that such a merge could happen when album and artist were identical but founding that the new album was merged with another one only because both albums have the same name was a surprise.

Concretely, that means this:

  • You have an album with name 'Chopin" and artist X.
  • You import it.
  • You cannot find as a new album.
  • You search through all albums named 'Chopin".
  • You find the tracks of the new album inserted as a new Disk to an existing album named "Chopin’ but with Artist Y.
  • Of course, you do that check because you noticed the missing album.

We should have either a warning when such merge occur, or a log file listing all actions/decisions taken during sync.

Hope this will be heard. In the meantime I will try to browse through the DB using SQLite to find similar cases I did not notice.

2

Can you send one track from each album at [email protected] so I can try to reproduce your issue on my side?

3

Bonjour Antoine,
OK, I will try to do it. I need to find the original version of the album before I modified the title.

4

OK, files have been sent.

5

I don’t see it in my Inbox, can you check if the mail has been sent properly?

6

Antoine,
Désolé, je croyais que le message était parti en utilisant iCloud pour transférer les fichiers.
Apparemment ça n’a pas marchĂ©.
Je viens de relancer mais si cela ne marche pas, il faudra que j’utilise un outil pour transfĂ©rer les fichiers (100M0).
Eric

7

Antoine,
Does not seem to work using iCloud. Do you have an access to a shared directory or something?
Eric

8

OK, I reuse that thread, as I found yet another example of albums merged without notice and without reason.
Album title are indeed identical (“Bruckner: Symphony No. 7”) but all the rest is entirely different.
I managed to find the new album merged with an old one and identified as “disk 1”. I updated the album title for all tracks and the new album is now identified as a separate album.
But:

  • I had to manually change the image
  • There is a pdf booklet but I could not associate it to the new album. How is it possible to add a booklet to an existing album?

Thanks for the update.

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Today I would say “Need URGENTLY a fix”.
I spent once again long minutes to understand WHY a newly imported album was not shown in the list of “recently imported” albums!!
I checked the name (directory+audio files) and did not find anything suspect.
Finally, I discovered that the new album has been merged (without notice, including in the log file I inspected) with another album.
The title is the same “J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations” but the artist IS NOT the same.

The interesting thing was that:

  • The new album took the place of an old one and replaced the album cover by the new one,
  • The first list of tracks were those of the old album
  • The tracks from the new album appeared after under a tag “Disk #1”.
    What a mess!!

In classical music, this is certainly a very common case, not appearing in other styles of music of course (or referenced with the “covered by” thing).
I’m just wondering if:

  • Audirvana is designed for the particular case of “classical music” (Not the rigth term anyway, but I’m sure people will understand).
  • When we can expect a fix for this, or at least a warning somewhere saying "Oh, by the way, I found an existing album with that name and I decided unilateraly to merge the new one with the album I found. if you disagree I could not care less


Or maybe the problem is not clearly understood by the developers