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Music showing compilations albums for single songs - rridder - 2013-01-31
Hello, I'm new to the forum, but have bin using xbmc for a wile now and just went over to frodo. I have bin looking for my problem on the forums but could really find it.
I'm running Mac OSX ML > xbmc Frodo > Aeon MQ4 skin.
I'm alway organizing my music in itunes with all the tags. All of the albums are going well accept the singles where i have no album for.
I have selected them all and set the album artist tag to "various artists" and left the album tag empty and selected the compilation button.
Now when i go into xbmc - music - album all the artist that are in the compilation have a single album and also get an album name (from the original file i guess).
so for example there is an album that is called "various artists" and title "Hitzone 63". I don't know where the old album tag is coming from as in itunes the tag is empty (and making it an unknown album). Before i have tried to set the album tag to "unknown" that just makes en album with one of the random images so not really what i'm looking for.
How can i have it that the empty albums tags are just not coming in the album view of xbmc?
Hope someone can help me.
Kind Regards,
Rein
RE: Music showing compilations albums for single songs - jmarshall - 2013-02-01
Have you told itunes to write the tags out to the files? IIRC it keeps a bunch of stuff in a local database instead.
Also, note that XBMC treats empty album names as singles. i.e. they'll appear in the singles node.
RE: Music showing compilations albums for single songs - rridder - 2013-02-01
Thank you for your reply, is that the option convert ID3 Tags?
Hmm i used that option now and remove the part of compilation tag. I updated the libary and cleaned it but not much have change, on more problem came up and that is that all the songs are now double in xbmc. I also don't seem to get any rating like i have in itunes. Someone knows what to do?
Thanks in advance.
Rein
RE: Music showing compilations albums for single songs - rridder - 2013-02-01
Removed the Artist Album tag and album tag is empty, i converted all the ID3 tags. The cover art i now updated for the singles in xbmc but it still shows the old album were they where from.
edit: the problem i had with the duplicates is gone.