why oh why are the following separate albums?

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o.k. i usually complain about plex combining different albums into one album w/o the possibility to split them afterwards.

 

this time it's exactly the other way around. plex will not build a complete album for the live of me but keeps one track as a separate but identical album.

 

Anyone care to explain?

 

Usually theres a slight difference in the tags but this time i cannot find anything at all as to why plex behaves the way it does.

Here are the tags. all tracks except 3 are part of the Album 1, track 3 is part of album 2. Music folders are managed by itunes. album is in the correct folder,...

 

udos-imac:Storm Front udo$ python ~/M4ATag.py 03\ The\ Downeaster\ Alexa.m4a 
{'Album': u'Storm Front',
 'Artist': u'Billy Joel',
 'Comment': u'',
 'Itunnorm': u' 00000FB5 00001195 00006FAF 0000610F 00010539 0002F58D 00007FFF 00007FFF 00006B64 00009FA3',
 'Itunsmpb': u' 00000000 00000840 00000014 000000000095F3AC 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000',
 'Title': u'The Downeaster Alexa',
 'Tool': u'',
 'Track': 3,
 'Writer': u'',
 'Year': u'1989'}
udos-imac:Storm Front udo$ python ~/M4ATag.py 02\ We\ Didn\'t\ Start\ the\ Fire.m4a 
{'Album': u'Storm Front',
 'Artist': u'Billy Joel',
 'Comment': u'',
 'Itunnorm': u' 0000130E 000012D8 00007428 00006915 0003E38E 0003E38E 00007FFF 00007FFF 0000F99D 0000A571',
 'Itunsmpb': u' 00000000 00000840 00000130 0000000000C19E90 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000',
 'Title': u"We Didn't Start the Fire",
 'Tool': u'',
 'Track': 2,
 'Writer': u'',
 'Year': u'1989'}
udos-imac:Storm Front udo$ 
 

Anyone spotting any differnce here?

 

thanks

udo

 

[mmccurdy]

Nothing jumps out at me.  I'm not totally familiar with M4ATag.py.  Are you sure that a complete list of all the metadata atoms in those files?

If you can PM me a dropbox link to that album I can take a closer look at what exactly is not matching.

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Removed all tracks from itunes and re-d/led them using iTunes match. Now plex sees one album. 

re M4ATag (you can find it on the web) the output was sufficient up to now to find what the difference in Tags was despite iTunes telling me that all tags are set and matching.

thx for the offer.

Udo