BUG Music library - same name, different album

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Pynto R Offline
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I notice that two albums with same name (and same band, but different year) are thrown to the same folder in music library.
Band example: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Orelha+Negra
This is no small band, it's in the tops in Portugal, so I can't be the only one asking for this Smile
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jmarshall Offline
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Post: #2
Said band needs to get more creative with their album names.

If you want to take a look (I doubt anyone else will right at the moment) you can check out the code that characterises albums in

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/tree/master...canner.cpp

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Jonathan

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BryanS Offline
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Post: #3
I ran into this also with a regular and remastered version of an album. I just went back and added the year in the id3 tag in the album line. Then it will separate them. But I think I found a bug with this.

If the albums have different art work, you might need to move both albums out of the library folders and update the library so XBMC removes them from the library. Then move them back and update and it will find the right art work for each album. The regular album on mine kept the remastered art work even after separation and update. I had to remove and re add it to the library to get it to update the image even though the image was tagged and as a folder.jpg file.
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