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2017-08-11, 16:39
(This post was last modified: 2017-08-13, 15:23 by DaveBlake.)
Hi everyone,
Apologies if this question has been asked before. I have researched my problem but cant find a solution to my exact issue. Basically i have several various artists compilations (GTA vice city soundtracks) on a Nas drive that i am trying to get kodi to index (as well as my other music). I have used Musicbrainz picard to get the meta tags correct. When kodi starts indexing the music it puts all the tracks in the reletive albums correctly then when it finishes all the tracks seem to be in separate albums.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
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Hi, thanks for your reply, sounds like im through to the right person!
Here are some of the mb release ids
86fa908e-c793-48b6-8e1a-5f13d5cc6866
3416ae1e-ac67-4519-a31d-298cb8bde8ae
614e0dc9-8fa9-4525-853d-c382cdaafc15
3b32eece-b159-459b-8fe5-2b5e9af9974f
57705a3e-a367-443a-9632-2d1f89c9593b
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So the issue is if I go to music - albums in Kodi it shows an album for each track of the compilation. So, for example, I get 17 vice city volume 2 albums each containing one track. Hope that's a bit more clear!
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2017-08-11, 17:55
(This post was last modified: 2017-08-11, 19:02 by DaveBlake.)
That is odd!! I'll try to find time later to create some test files and see if I can repeat the issue.
What folder layout do you have the music files stored in?
What format of file and tag format - mp3 v2.4 or 2.3, or FLAC etc.?
How are the music files named?
If you just add one of these albums to the library does it do the same thing?
EDIT:
Tried a test with that tagging (ID3 v2.4 ), and can't reproduce the issue, so I need to know the above details as something else is happening.
Could there be a mix of tag formats in the music files? That can cause some odd results, and Picard doesn't show you everything. maybe use MP3tag to have a look at the tagging, it lists the formats it finds as well as the tag values.
Oh and I guess I should know what version of Kodi and what platform you are running it on.
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Im using kodi on a pc and android phone with the same results. The files are stored on a NAS drive in a shared music folder. When i first install kodi add my nas drive. When i look at the albums at that point they are all in the correct folder (one folder containing the respective tracks). when i ask kodia to import the shared music folder into the music library it splits the tracks into one track per folder (all folders with the same name). i have mp3 tag so ill try thats aswell.
The format is all MP3 and the names are as per picard names them.
Hope this makes some sense!
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Is that Krypton 17.3?
Fileview shows folders, the library shows albums derived from tagging. But I can't see why Picard tagging would produce this result.
It is mp3 files, but v2.3 or v2.4 tags?
Can you give an example full path of one of the music files?
Are you sure you are looking at the albums node when you say it is one album per track, not the songs node? Sorry, it just seems very odd, so I ask the obvious. A screenshot perhaps?
Also can you upload your Music60.db file somewhere for me to fetch, and maybe an example music file. I would prefer to be sent the link privately via PM, but until you have made 10 posts you can't do that.
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Spot on Dave!
It was the NAS drive config. I went through Windows Network SMB as opposed to UPnP device and its fine now.
Thank you very much for your help Dave, i really appreciate it.
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Paul, can you try connecting your NAS as SMB not upnp and see if it makes a difference?
Like Dave I use NAS but connect it via SMB and my library is ok as well.
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