2018-04-26, 06:24
Hello
Problem:
An unusual problem has arisen in my classical music library. I have this library organised as a separate parent node with a rule that restricts the beginning of the path. I then have a composer node inside the parent node which displays content by artist. At some point yesterday a new folder appeared in the composer folder 'various'. It contained five albums from my other music source, that is their paths do not match path restriction rule. I cannot understand why they have suddenly begun to display in the composers folder. I cannot find any pattern linking them, and although three out of five are compilations in the strict sense (same [albumartist] and [album] tags but different [artist] tags), two are not. One belongs to a six disc release and so while the [album artist] is different from the [artist], the [artist] tag is the same for each track. The second's [artist] tags are all identical to the [album artist] except for one track.
Steps taken:
Clean Library {No effect}
Made [artist] and [album artist] tag identical for the item mentioned above, then recanned it. {successfully removed this item}
Made superficial changes to [date] tag and [artist] tag on some other releases, then rescanned. {no effect}
Made [artist] and [album artist] tag identical for one of the albums, then rescanned. {no effect}
Deleted an item from the via 'file', then cleaned library. {item now removed} Rescanned item {item now back in the wrong composer folder, so overall no effect}
All this is puzzling because:
1. Kodi displays these items' path correctly during rescans and these paths donot fit the path requirements of the parent node.
2. None of these files were added, altered in any way before they suddenly began to display in the wrong place.
3. There are numerous other albums which are, from what I can tell, indistinguishable from these four albums in terms of their basic structure/location.
4. The reasons for the removal of one of these albums after changes to its tag are mysterious.
5. Even if I delete them, clean library, then rescan they still reappear in the wrong place.
Anyone know what I should do next?
Problem:
An unusual problem has arisen in my classical music library. I have this library organised as a separate parent node with a rule that restricts the beginning of the path. I then have a composer node inside the parent node which displays content by artist. At some point yesterday a new folder appeared in the composer folder 'various'. It contained five albums from my other music source, that is their paths do not match path restriction rule. I cannot understand why they have suddenly begun to display in the composers folder. I cannot find any pattern linking them, and although three out of five are compilations in the strict sense (same [albumartist] and [album] tags but different [artist] tags), two are not. One belongs to a six disc release and so while the [album artist] is different from the [artist], the [artist] tag is the same for each track. The second's [artist] tags are all identical to the [album artist] except for one track.
Steps taken:
Clean Library {No effect}
Made [artist] and [album artist] tag identical for the item mentioned above, then recanned it. {successfully removed this item}
Made superficial changes to [date] tag and [artist] tag on some other releases, then rescanned. {no effect}
Made [artist] and [album artist] tag identical for one of the albums, then rescanned. {no effect}
Deleted an item from the via 'file', then cleaned library. {item now removed} Rescanned item {item now back in the wrong composer folder, so overall no effect}
All this is puzzling because:
1. Kodi displays these items' path correctly during rescans and these paths donot fit the path requirements of the parent node.
2. None of these files were added, altered in any way before they suddenly began to display in the wrong place.
3. There are numerous other albums which are, from what I can tell, indistinguishable from these four albums in terms of their basic structure/location.
4. The reasons for the removal of one of these albums after changes to its tag are mysterious.
5. Even if I delete them, clean library, then rescan they still reappear in the wrong place.
Anyone know what I should do next?
