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Dealing with split albums

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When your music is incorrectly tagged or organized in a way that GMMP does not like, there is a possibility that a single album will appear as multiple in the album list.

Steps to make sure an album doesn't get split.

  • Make sure the albumartist and album tags are all identical for every song in the album
  • If your music does not have an albumartist tag make sure all the artist tags are identical
  • Albums with some files containing and albumartist tag and some files without the albumartist tag will not be grouped together
    • Use the "song info" option to view the actual tags of a file.  The tag editor will automatically populate the albumartist field with the artist if it is blank, so it is not a good way to tell if the albumartist tag is correct.
  • Keep the files of the album in a single folder
    • This makes things much easier for the scanner
  • If the album files are in different folders or you adding extra files to an existing album:
    • Make sure Advanced Scanner Settings - MultiFolder Albums is turned on
    • Make sure not only the albumartist and album tags are identical, also make sure the year tag is identical.  All 3 are used by the scanner to group albums in multiple folders.

mp3tag is recommending for viewing and correctly tags: https://www.mp3tag.de/en/  What mp3tag can read, gmmp can also typically read.

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