2020-12-09, 00:45
So today I ripped a few albums. But one of them, a compilation album is showing up twice!!!!!
On on of the copies of the album it shows all the tracks apart from a few. The other copy listed has the missing tracks!
I have double and triple checked the tags, the tags are 100% correct. I thought I has spelled the album name wrong or something, but nope. All correct.
so I had a look at the Kodi music library sql database and I have found it has indeed added as two albums and I also noticed that all the tracks that are missing from the main album have the following columns different from the rest:
strMusicBrainzAlbumID
strArtistSort
bCompilation
strMusicBrainzAlbumID has an ID number in it where everything else in my library is set to NULL
strArtistSort has the artist entered where everything else in my library is set to NULL
bCompilation has a value of 0 where the rest of the tracks in the album have a value of 1
So where the bloody hell did the strMusicBrainzAlbumID and strArtistSort values come from?!?!?!?! I didn't enter them anywhere!!
I ripped the CD using Sound Juicer 3.24.0 in Ubuntu 20.04. I then filled out all the tags manually using EasyTag 2.4.3. Like I have done for over 920 other albums and have had no issue before!!!!
My music is stored in a read-only SMB share. Kodi does not have the ability to write to the files at all! I also have kodi set to use 'Local Information Only' and not pick up info from the files from online.
So the only way this info could have got here must be from Sound Juicer when I ripped the files.
Is there a way to use the shell to show what tags are in a flac file? and remove these silyl MusicBrainz ones? I don't even know what MusicBrainz is but it has messed up the way kodi lists the album.
Can anyone help please? this is very frustrating and I have already spent 4 hours on it. I have re-ripped the CD 4 times and it is always the same tracks with the issue.
On on of the copies of the album it shows all the tracks apart from a few. The other copy listed has the missing tracks!
I have double and triple checked the tags, the tags are 100% correct. I thought I has spelled the album name wrong or something, but nope. All correct.
so I had a look at the Kodi music library sql database and I have found it has indeed added as two albums and I also noticed that all the tracks that are missing from the main album have the following columns different from the rest:
strMusicBrainzAlbumID
strArtistSort
bCompilation
strMusicBrainzAlbumID has an ID number in it where everything else in my library is set to NULL
strArtistSort has the artist entered where everything else in my library is set to NULL
bCompilation has a value of 0 where the rest of the tracks in the album have a value of 1
So where the bloody hell did the strMusicBrainzAlbumID and strArtistSort values come from?!?!?!?! I didn't enter them anywhere!!
I ripped the CD using Sound Juicer 3.24.0 in Ubuntu 20.04. I then filled out all the tags manually using EasyTag 2.4.3. Like I have done for over 920 other albums and have had no issue before!!!!
My music is stored in a read-only SMB share. Kodi does not have the ability to write to the files at all! I also have kodi set to use 'Local Information Only' and not pick up info from the files from online.
So the only way this info could have got here must be from Sound Juicer when I ripped the files.
Is there a way to use the shell to show what tags are in a flac file? and remove these silyl MusicBrainz ones? I don't even know what MusicBrainz is but it has messed up the way kodi lists the album.
Can anyone help please? this is very frustrating and I have already spent 4 hours on it. I have re-ripped the CD 4 times and it is always the same tracks with the issue.