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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: benn600 on November 11, 2007, 05:35:09 pm

Title: Identical Album Names
Post by: benn600 on November 11, 2007, 05:35:09 pm

So I have two identical albums:
Deep Blue Something, Home
Dixie Chicks, Home

Well, both Media Center and my iPhone essentially get "confused" and count these as the same album.  So, when playing one song on my iPhone, the songs from the other album show up.  In Media Center, with the large thumbnail the songs show up under the same major thumbnail.

Are there any solutions?  At first I thought: "Why not see that the artist has changed?"  But that obviously wouldn't work for compilation albums.  It's far from a big problem but it does pose an interesting question.  Are there many albums with the same name?

Title: Re: Identical Album Names
Post by: hit_ny on November 12, 2007, 01:48:31 am

Create a calculated field [album] - [album artist]

then display that field either in a pane or in a smartlist column (provided you limit it to a track/album), sorted alphabetically, then eyeball it. If you see

Home - Deep Blue something
Home - Dixie Chicks

then you have a dupe :)