WACUP does not merge albums, instead creates duplicates

[toribyte]

This, for some reason, only applies to my albums involving various artists.

Background: Because an unrelated program would not launch (instead as a background process), I had to clean reinstall my computer, but I had to rebuild my media library once I reinstalled WACUP. But for some reason, unlike last time I had this app, the library separates certain albums (like I said, when multiple artists worked on that album). Is there any way to "merge" them?

[toribyte]

I don't know why it does this to some albums w/ various artists, but leaves some of the others intact.

[dro]

It's based around using 'album artist' for the matching with it then falling back to 'artist' if that doesn't exist (depending on the config options used). For vgm based sets as that looks like it might be, I know for some of them they often don't seem to want to group nicely as the album artist is somewhat treated as a per-track artist field.

The solution is to either try to re-tag them (which if it's vgm sets would mean that it's just custom metadata being stored in the local library db & not the actual files as writing tags for most of them often isn't supported) which'd then get things to group correctly but is relying on the db being maintained (which is probably why it's messed up if you had to start over). The other option would be to go to preferences -> media library -> local library -> uncheck the option to use 'album artist' & it'll then just look at 'artist' & that might be a better fit for the media you're using (is notes with that option about the recommended option above).

-dro

[toribyte]

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