My music collection is mainly classical and Broadway cast recordings. I have a number of albums that are different performances of the same work. That means the album title is the same ("Beethoven: Symphony No. 7", "Fiddler on the Roof") but the "Artist" and "Album Artist" fields are different ("New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein", "Vienna Philharmonic, Carlos Kleiber"; "Broadway Cast Recording", "London Cast Recording", "Film Soundtrack").
MC itself correctly displays the "duplicate" albums separately, as does the iOS MonkeyMote app. But Gizmo in Album view shows only one album. Selecting it shows a collated set of tracks from all the different albums. The tracks for the first album appear in sequence, followed by tracks from the second, etc. (That's at least better than listing the Track 1's from each album, followed by the Track 2's, etc.) I don't know whether this behavior is a bug or an intentional design decision. Either way, I suspect this doesn't affect the vast majority of users who listen to pop genres (and probably use the Artist view anyway). But I find it annoying.
One obvious solution would be to manually edit those "duplicate" albums to give them unique titles. But I'd prefer not to spend time doing that. Is there perhaps a setting I don't know about that can make it consistent with what MC itself does?
One other annoyance is that Now Playing truncates the title and album fields rather than scrolling them horizontally so the entire text is visible. This is also more likely to be a problem with classical music, where the title might contain a lengthy "marking" or a concatenated composer, work, and movement title. Is there a technical reason why scrolling these fields is impractical, or is it a design decision?
I am using version 21.0.1 of Gizmo, apparently the latest.
