FLAC files with same Album and AlbumArtist tags appear as a duplicate album if the Artist tags differ.

[Standroid 0]

Simple flat file organization - all (39K+) files are FLAC music, are complete performances and are uniformly tagged using mp3tag. My schema uses 15 "standard" FLAC tags and four more of my own creation. FLAC tags that are not used in my schema have been removed. ID3v1, ID3v2 & APE tags have all been removed. Searching for added tags in emby is disabled - I'm happy with my tagging.

Every file has an Album tag. Most files have one or more Artist tags using FLAC/mp3tag convention for multiple values. Most files have a Composer tag.

Every file has the identical value for the AlbumArtist tag: "Various Artists". The AlbumArtist tag is not relevant to my schema, but I added this tag to every file because it was the most frequently cited solution to the duplicate album problem. Adding this AlbumArtist tag has had no effect on the count of duplicate albums.

Problem: Files with same Album and AlbumArtist tags appear as a duplicate album if the Artist tags differ. I would like to see just one entry for each album in the Albums table.

I can understand the logic of grouping files with a unique combination of Album and AlbumArtist as a unique album, since album names are frequently recycled, but why extend that logic to every track with a different artist? Compilation albums are common, right?

What am I doing wrong? All suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading.

Environment: Emby Version 4.9.3.0 running on a Synology NAS, DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 9. Clients are Windows and Android.

Edited 1 hour ago by Standroid
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