Hello, my first attempt to use Amarok 2.4.0 (~ 11 months ago) failed, but now I had finally to switch from Amarok 2.3.2 to Amarok 2.4.3, since the old version had some display incompatibilities after my update from KDE 4.7.4 to 4.8.1. Unfortunately the problems with 2.4.3 are for me still the same as with 2.4.0. I understand that Amarok supports now an album interpret starting with 2.4.x.
My local collection is typically sorted with the interpret at the first layer and the album name at the second layer (incl. year). In 2.3.2 this has for some albums the unfortunate effect that they are added to the various artists, just because one song is e.g. a duet. With 2.4.x this album is moved out of the various artists and I get individual entries now, one for each interpret variation. OK, therefore I select in 2.4.3 now the album interpret as first layer and - hooray - all titles of the album are grouped together within one entry (well, if the titles have the album interpret set). Promising. However, I have suddenly albums in the various artists that have not been there with Amarok 2.3.2. As it turns out, the titles of all albums with same name are now grouped together although the tags for interpret and album interpret are set correctly. E.g. I have suddenly an album "Up" in the various artists where the titles of the albums with this name of Peter Gabriel, R.E.M. and Shania Twain are mixed up (sorted alphabetically by track number and name). This prevents completely the selection of the individual album for the playlist. I have quite some of this annoying clashes (albums with name "Time", "Eden", "Zeitgeist", "Harpe Celtique", "Elemental", "Simply the best", "Hysteria", "Solo"). Another bunch of "new" albums for the various artists appear. All those are affected where the interpret is the same for all titles of the album, the album interpret is empty, but the composer may vary. A manual run of the amarokcollectionscanner proofs that the tag info was properly read. Is there anything else I can do? - Jörg _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
