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Title: Album count wrong
Post by: Blue Boy on January 11, 2011, 12:05:36 pm

I have downloaded the latest build to both my external drives and my "main" music computer. Today I have ripped 422 albums but when deleting all albums and add them again
they just show up att 403 or 413 albums entered under the album tab. Counting every album manualy in the album mode there is still 422, is this a bug or something wrong in my
settings? Everything is in Wav. and tagged with the Wav Aiff. plug in.

Title: Re: Album count wrong
Post by: JimH on January 11, 2011, 12:08:13 pm

That sounds like some weren't imported.

What is the WAV AIFF plug-in?

Title: Re: Album count wrong
Post by: Blue Boy on January 11, 2011, 04:29:03 pm

All albums are correctly imported if I count the album covers, and they work as they should I have try al my "versions" I got tre istall of MC15 two on different external drive and one on my computer. The very same collection are shown up with different values depending on where I import them, but none shows 422.

I got my plugin from the plugin manager Wave Aiff plugin.

Title: Re: Album count wrong
Post by: vagskal on January 12, 2011, 12:39:01 am

Do you have albums with the exact same album name, "Greatest Hits", for example? If that is the case and you are taking the album count from the album pane in a pane view I think the number will be less than the number of actual albums.

Ripping 422 albums in one day is impressive.

Title: Re: Album count wrong
Post by: Blue Boy on January 12, 2011, 04:17:27 am

Vagskal, I think you solved the problem, first of all NO I didn't ripp 422 albums in one day,it has taken me a half year as I ripp them in Wav. scan the covers myself and add some info. But I did enter in the album tag for example: Dolly Parton-The Essential 2 CD and in artist tag: Dolly Parton. I changed my mind and then deleted Dolly Parton in the album
tag and ended up with just: The Essential 2 CD. I have a lot of album like best of The greatest hits and so on. So I think you have solved this issue but it raises another question
how can I see  the actual number of discs now if I continue use this solution?

Title: Re: Album count wrong
Post by: vagskal on January 12, 2011, 05:29:40 am

Quote from: Blue Boy on January 12, 2011, 04:17:27 am

So I think you have solved this issue but it raises another question how can I see  the actual number of discs now if I continue use this solution?

I am not sure. Someone else might know.

One way that might work for you is to note the number of albums reported in the album pane (Value A). Then create a smartlist with this expression.

Code: [Select]

[Media Type]=[Audio] ~nodup=[Album Artist] ~dup=[Album] ~nodup=[Album]
(If you have not set [Album Artist] you can probably use [Album Artist (auto)] instead. I do not think more than two various artists albums with the same album name will be picked up by this method.)
 
Note the number of files reported (Value B).

Then add ~nodup=[Album] to the smartlist expression like this:

Code: [Select]

[Media Type]=[Audio] ~nodup=[Album Artist] ~dup=[Album] ~nodup=[Album]
Note the number of files reported (Value C).

Manually calculating B-C+A should give you the total number of albums.

If you want to know how many discs those albums contain perhaps you can use a similar successive smartlist method with Disc#.

But I am sure that someone else has an easier method to offer. 

Title: Re: Album count wrong
Post by: rick.ca on January 12, 2011, 05:33:45 am

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how can I see  the actual number of discs now if I continue use this solution?

Include a pane with the expression [Album Artist (auto)] - [Album].

Title: Re: Album count wrong
Post by: vagskal on January 12, 2011, 05:36:24 am

Forget my last post.

This should be far easier:

Go to an albums categories view and put this in the search wizard:

Code: [Select]

~nodup=[Album],[Date]
The file count should give you the number of albums.

I cannot think of an easy method to determine how many discs those albums contain.