Re: [Muine] Separate album entry for tracks on iPod

[Link Dupont <link subpop net>]

Yea, I suspect its the folder structure on the iPod. Muine tends to
consider different folders seperate "albums".

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 18:47 +0100, Mike Rhodes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using Muine a while now -- it's a great music player.
> 
> Today I got back from holiday and plugged in my iPod full of music
> from a friend I was staying with. As I am running low on disk space, I
> just pointed the Muine Add Folder dialog at my mounted iPod. Muine
> went through and added the tracks; however there is a problem.
> 
> The problem is that each of the added songs has its own entry in the
> Play Album listing. So for each new album I have ten or so entries in
> the Play Album list. The album names and artist names are all correct
> -- my friend is *very* careful to tag things correctly and retags most
> stuff if it is downloaded -- so I don't think it is due to the tags
> being different. The tags are id3v1 if that makes a difference.
> 
> Could the strange file organisation on the iPod be a cause of this?
> For one thing the songs are stored in many different folders per album
> due to the way the iPod works (as far as I can tell).
> 
> The metadata all seems to be imported correctly, it just seems that
> Muine isn't consolodating Artist/Album pairs into a single album entry
> for some reason... The songs also seem to play correctly and album
> cover art recovery seems to work too.
> 
> The songs were imported on Windows using Foobar2000 rather than iTunes.
> 
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