[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Tracks split across several duplicatealbumnames

[Neil Cameron]

There's an exception to every rule, and in this case it is John Lee Hooker - 
both The Healer and Chill Out (not iTunes Compilations) split mysteriously; 
the former has Track 1 all alone, and the latter Track 5 - just to add to 
the confusion...

Neil

"Neil Cameron" <ncameron at msn.com> wrote in message 
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>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