[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Tracks split across several duplicate albumnames

[Neil Cameron]

I am getting this too; mostly on iTunes labelled 'Compilation' CDs. Some are 
spilt into a seperate Album for each track; some have a random selection 
(say 1 - 3) of non-contiguous tracks on 3 - 6 eponymously named albums.
Not pretty and somewhat annoying.  There seems to be no discernable logic as 
to whether it occurs and - if so - how the split is formed.

I am now on 6.5b Nightly build from 1 Aug; on Win XP.

Neil


"Phil Meyer" <slim at hergest.demon.co.uk> wrote 
in message news:p883d29mkf37694geerohbchfcq0pms655 at 4ax.com...
To my dismay, bug 3854 has been closed as "works for me".  I raised that bug 
because I posted several messages here about problems with various artists 
functionality, and got no response, so I thought I'd better file a bug so it 
isn't lost.

I still have an unuseable list of various artist albums.  The current SVN 
seems to be riddled with VA/scanning problems to me - everything was looking 
pretty good a few days ago.  I suspect it went wrong when the transporter 
branch was merged.

I am stuck between two problems:
1) Do a full rescan, and "various artists" link is missing.  Navigate to any 
various artist album and slimserver reports 0 songs for that album.
2) Do a "look for new and changed files" causes the "various artists" link 
to be visible, but I end up with the tracks split across multiple instances 
of the album names.

I notice a similar looking thread from Patrick Dixon - did that ever get 
resolved?

Phil