Carneth 12 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Hi all, so, since I've upgraded from MB2 - 3 (Using MBC) .... I have the following problem with my music... Say I have an artist with two albums, e.g. Pink Floyd - The Wall Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Whether I view 'music' or 'music albums' I get 1 album listed, say, The Wall and all tracks appear in the one album. However, I know for certain that the metadata is correct - and this is occuring for every single artist which has multiple albums.. Any ideas, I'm sure I'm just not doing something right with configuration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBzeer 6 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 (edited) What's your folder structure for music? I use: Music/ (parent folder) Artist/ (folder) Album/ (folder) Tracks (files) Album/ (folder) Tracks (files) That's how I ripped them, so that's what I used. Unfortunately, you have to add art for the parent folder.(Artist). Or, you can set your folders up so they just show individual albums rather than grouping them under the Artist Folder by using: The Wall - Pink Floyd, WIsh You Were Here - Pink Floyd as separate folders under music. Music/ (parent folder) The Wall - Pink Floyd/ (folder) Tracks (files) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd/ (folder) Tracks (files) Edited August 3, 2014 by PBzeer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carneth 12 Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 Heya, Thanks for replying. My music structure is literally :\Music\Artist\Song ... This used to work with MB2, however, it seems to be collapsing all songs into one album. The file name is like "[#][Album-Disc] Track name.alac" I have literally thousands of songs all with the metatags properly organised & consistent.. I'm on my way to work but I just had an idea that I can't test until tonight - but, could it be that on the MBC configuration I set Collapse Movies - I'm wondering if it's collapsing music by album too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carneth 12 Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 OK, so, I'm guessing.. If the collapse movies thing doesnt work.. then I'm going to have to follow the structure defined here: http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/674-media-files-folders-structure/&do=findComment&comment=21480 of: :\Music\Artist\Album\Track ... Is there any recommendation for compilations? Currently i have them under: :\Music\Compilations\Compilation Name\Track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution aspdend 174 Posted August 4, 2014 Solution Share Posted August 4, 2014 I have my compilations under music/various artists/album name/track and that works fine for me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carneth 12 Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 Hi there, again .. I'm now just wondering, in case I have to re-structure all my music into that folder format.. Is anyone aware of a good tool that will do this as a batch job by using the meta data in my alacs to rebuild the folder structure .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicpa 549 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Hi, You may want to try Picard,http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard. It has a option to move and rename as needed. As always have a backup I used it and had good results. I also use it to tag new music. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carneth 12 Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 Hey - thank you I'll set that running tonight ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjaninja 533 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Hi there, again .. I'm now just wondering, in case I have to re-structure all my music into that folder format.. Is anyone aware of a good tool that will do this as a batch job by using the meta data in my alacs to rebuild the folder structure .. @ I have found Picard to be good at ensuring 100% correct tags but Mp3tag (especially on large libraries) better at programatically/automatically (re)structuring a library on a filesystem. http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/3100-mp3tag-actions-for-cleaning-up-collection/ action 6 is designed to move tracks into a consitently defined structure and filename convention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codenamegamma 4 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 i used it today for the first time and it was really nice and setup stuff in the right folders. theres an option to move the files, that might be something you want to do, i just dragged all my music in, then completed the albums then let it process into a new folder and that moved all the tracks from all over the place into the new folder structure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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