Album Synced to Various Artists Folder Incorrectly.
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@CharAznableLoNZ
What does a USB device mean? is it a filesystem device, or something like MTP?
If songs are copied to the same directory and have the same album title but different artists, this can happen, but not when album artist is set to the same artist. -
@jonas
In this case it is a FiiO X1, however Strawberry treats it like a USB drive. I see the same behavior on the USB drive I plug into my truck as well. I believe both are formatted as FAT32 since that is what both players prefer.
For this album, I guess I fixed this album by doing some minor corrections to the tags. However I did not touch the Album Artist tags as that was already populated as the same for all tracks on the album. I still see it on other albums.
I mostly want to figure out what triggers this and if there is a way to force strawberry to ignore this behavior and just follow the sync Naming Options. -
Had another example today. Of the twelve albums of Toho Bossa Nova, the twelfth one was sent to various artists on sync instead of the correct folder the other eleven were. All albums have the same Album Artist Entry. Further I went and investigated the various artists folder and found several more examples.
Is there a way to disable this behavior entirely? I want it to follow my sync options and nothing else. -
@CharAznableLoNZ is the "Compilation" box checked in the tags? If it is, that song will go to the "Various Artists" folder no matter what the Album Artist field says. I've sometimes had an issue where the Compilation box will be inexplicably checked on albums where the artist is the same on every song--very annoying but thankfully pretty easy to fix.
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@econnolly It was checked. Going to disable that on every track in my library. That's highly annoying since there is no mention in the sync settings about that checkbox. Maybe a tweak could be made to ignore the compilation checkbox during sync.
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@CharAznableLoNZ Unfortunately after syncing, Strawberry is still putting albums into Various Artists that do not have Compilation box checked.
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@CharAznableLoNZ when I right-click on songs in the sidebar, this menu comes up--maybe this will do the trick?
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@econnolly My understanding is that only changes how the library displays songs. I'll try it next time I sync a device. My issue is when I sync a playlist, some tracks will be placed in Various Artists. These tracks are listed under the correct artist in the library and my sync options uses Album Artist instead of just Artist during sync.
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@CharAznableLoNZ I synced trying the setting suggested however strawberry still incorrectly puts albums into the various artists folder.
Is there any way to disable this functionality entirely? -
As of 1.1.2 this problem is still occuring.
