tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/problems/47071-beatunes-mixing-albums-togetherbeaTunes: Discussion 2021-01-22T19:27:46Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/441082102017-11-22T21:56:02Z2017-11-22T21:56:02ZBeaTunes mixing albums together.<div><p>Hey Robert,</p>
<p>what’s the album artist of those “16 biggest hits” tracks? That would be the property beaTunes should use to split the set.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/441082102017-11-22T21:56:12Z2017-11-22T21:56:12ZBeaTunes mixing albums together.<div><p>Hey Robert,</p>
<p>what’s the album artist of those “16 biggest hits” tracks? That would be the property beaTunes should use to split the set.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/441082102017-11-22T22:04:51Z2021-01-22T19:27:46ZBeaTunes mixing albums together.<div><p>Hi Hendrik,</p>
<p>Thanks, I’ll check into that - and this is another reason setting the header displays globally would be very helpful. If ‘Album Artist’ is the key sort having it and the track # information is critical to getting a good comparison. Perhaps a secondary field sort on ‘Artist’ if ‘Album Artist’ is null?</p>
<p>Appreciate the quick response!</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>R B Tharp<br>
<a href="mailto:rbtharp@gmail.com">rbtharp@gmail.com</a></p></div>rbtharptag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/441082102017-11-22T22:31:46Z2021-01-22T19:27:46ZBeaTunes mixing albums together.<div><p>Hi Hendrik,</p>
<p>Attached is another screen shot of what I’d rate as an album name Inspection error - BeaTunes is confused by Led Zeppelin II and III and thinks it’s one album. Note track counts (10 and 9) are correct and Album Artist is set.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>R B Tharp<br>
<a href="mailto:rbtharp@gmail.com">rbtharp@gmail.com</a></p></div>rbtharptag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/441082102017-11-22T22:41:05Z2021-01-22T19:27:46ZBeaTunes mixing albums together.<div><p>Hi Hendrik,</p>
<p>Here’s another error from the Misspelled Album issue - Separated the two with an ‘Artist’ sort, the program is attempting to merge ‘Tommy' and 'Dummy’ despite both the ‘Album Artist’ and the ‘Artist’ fields being different, as well as ‘Track #’ data.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>R B Tharp<br>
<a href="mailto:rbtharp@gmail.com">rbtharp@gmail.com</a></p></div>rbtharptag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/441082102017-11-23T10:04:42Z2017-11-23T10:04:42ZBeaTunes mixing albums together.<div><p>Hey there,</p>
<blockquote>
<p>and this is another reason setting the header displays globally would be very helpful. If ‘Album Artist’ is the key sort having it and the track # information is critical to getting a good comparison. Perhaps a secondary field sort on ‘Artist’ if ‘Album Artist’ is null?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I'm not sure I fully understand your comment.</p>
<p>For different inspectors, different columns are meaningful. Therefore beaTunes <em>should</em> remember the column settings on a per-inspector basis. BTW: You can change that by clicking on the <em>three dot</em> button at the very right of the table header (see attached screenshot).</p>
<p>If album artist is <code>null</code>, the inspector takes the regular artist into account.</p>
<p>There are several secondary sort options on the field <em>Album</em> (pure, by Artist, by Year). You can choose them by clicking on the word <em>Album</em> in the table header.</p>
<p>Regarding Led Zeppelin: The beaTunes inspectors report inconsistencies that <em>could</em> be issues. In this case it's definitely a false positive and the problem reported is not an issue at all. So you should check the "Ignore this issue in the future" box.</p>
<p>beaTunes isn't perfect. It's just a tool to support you when fixing your metadata. If it were perfect, you wouldn't have to go through issues and make decisions anymore. Please take everything reported by inspectors as hints, not as absolute truths.</p>
<p>BTW: Had that been <em>Led Zeppelin 2</em> and <em>Led Zeppelin 3</em> beaTunes would have "understood" that it's different albums. It's just the Roman numerals it stumbled over.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/441082102017-11-23T11:18:16Z2017-11-23T11:18:16ZBeaTunes mixing albums together.<div><blockquote>
<p>Here’s another error from the Misspelled Album issue - Separated the two with an ‘Artist’ sort, the program is attempting to merge ‘Tommy' and 'Dummy’ despite both the ‘Album Artist’ and the ‘Artist’ fields being different, as well as ‘Track #’ data.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>You really have a point here. beaTunes should at least check the artist/album artist.</p>
<p>If you're interested in a solution, please try out the current dev snapshot from <a href="https://www.beatunes.com/download/beaTunes-5-0-6-SNAPSHOT.dmg">https://www.beatunes.com/download/beaTunes-5-0-6-SNAPSHOT.dmg</a> It contains additional checks for artist names and track counts (specifically for the album typo inspector).</p></div>hendrik