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newHAPPYuser2015

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Wrong Album Type
« on: May 03, 2015, 10:08:50 am »
Hi

I have quite a few albums that show up as complete even though it's clearly not the case. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening? Or do I misunderstand how the field ''album type'' works?

Thanks
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ferday

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Re: Wrong Album Type
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2015, 10:26:31 am »
What does 'clearly not the case' mean?

A complete album is any amount of tracks, with sequential track numbers (no gaps), with the same album name and album artist (auto) name, and in the same folder on the HDD.

If your album has 10 tracks, and you have 1-8 it will show up as a complete album
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newHAPPYuser2015

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Re: Wrong Album Type
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2015, 10:41:50 am »
Quote from: ferday on May 03, 2015, 10:26:31 am
If your album has 10 tracks, and you have 1-8 it will show up as a complete album

I thought an album should be listed as complete if total number of tracks matches the number of tracks from said album that are present in the library.

Now I get it, thanks. Although it's kinda strange.
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Re: Wrong Album Type
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2015, 12:55:12 pm »
The Total Number of Tracks metadata is unreliable and usually requires manually tagging them to your specifications (if for no other reason than because different releases of albums often have different track orders and counts).
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newHAPPYuser2015

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Re: Wrong Album Type
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2015, 01:18:23 pm »
Quote from: glynor on May 03, 2015, 12:55:12 pm
The Total Number of Tracks metadata is unreliable

It maybe so, however as of now the whole ''complete/incomplete album'' thingy is unreliable, isn't it? At least if it took into account the total number of tracks and and if user noticed that an album was labeled as complete or incomplete incorrectly it could be fixed by changing said metadata. Right now, if I have all tracks in the range from 1 to n on an album,  it takes a leap of faith that there are no n+1, n+2, etc. and lumps together complete and incomplete albums as a result.
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Re: Wrong Album Type
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2015, 01:30:58 pm »
Quote from: newuser2015 on May 03, 2015, 01:18:23 pm
It maybe so, however as of now the whole ''complete/incomplete album'' thingy is unreliable, isn't it?

I don't disagree.  I wish there was a better solution for this.
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Re: Wrong Album Type
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2015, 06:47:11 am »
At least the current solution does not give too many false positives. In case of a big collection it is a good indication of complete/incomplete. When you KNOW an album is incomplete, you do not need it anyway.

You might want to build a custom field that compares the value of number of tracks to the actual numeber of tracks. Which is helpful only in case you know how many tracks an album is supposed to have.
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