I have a few albums in iTunes that have a number of artists but the Album is being split up in iTunes after I songkong it. So any tips/suggestions on fixing this? Its not all on various artists albums - but some.
Images of jaikoz/songkong/itunes here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ht75zvzw0yuwqai/AADF40IJslEbPIK2QKkRO1Vfa?dl=0
What is the Album artist set to ?
Well according to this it?s ?Mary Poppins OST? https://www.dropbox.com/s/6p7pchmkccdc3lf/Screenshot%202019-03-13%20at%2013.41.17.png?dl=0
Can you sen support file please:Help:Create Support Files)
Sure. Done. Thanks!
I was wrong… Well kind of. One of the tracks was that “Mary Poppins OST” but all the others were the Artist field - rather than “Various Artists”. I can fix in jaikoz for the occasional album - but is there a setting somewhere wrong in songkong?
For example - see here (NB: Image attachment just caused the forum to 500 error) https://www.dropbox.com/s/3pydjxvnmbfesxx/Screenshot%202019-03-19%20at%2009.17.13.png?dl=0
Hi
Okay if you
you’ll see the last changes that SongKong made.
My reports from your support files only go back this far, but its clear this isn’t the first time you have used SongKong on the files but gives us some insight.
As you should be able to see it only did Song Only/ Acoustid Song Only matches. This means that generally it only updates song info, not album info, however for non-compilations if there is no data we do sometimes try to add in the best matching album data since it is often the case that SongKong does match the correct album but just fails to match one or two tracks to it preventing whole album match
Now in this case it isnt a compilation album, but the the track artists is different so we shoudn’t be using this as an album artist, but I think that is what happened in previous run since albumartist is already set before this run.
Your fix is to use Edit Songs task to ensure Album and AlbumArtist are the same for all songs on the album, that should fix iTunes. I need to check the algorithm to prevent this occurring.
