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hechtus
Unique album entry per artist
I have a bunch of albums with multiple artists (compilations, soundtracks, etc.). If I look at my music using the plugin, the number of artists is almost equal to the number of albums. Looking at the list of albums shows one album per artist, which means I can't easily play an entire album.
For me it seems that there is no album artist defined for this album (celtic moods). Could you please try to define an album artist for this specific album like various artists? You can do this through the Google music Web interface.
I would also be interested how Google's Web interface interpretes your list of albums. Is it possible to post a screen shot of this also?
It looks correct under both web and mobile Play Music. The artist is listed as "Various" though the Album Artist is blank. I'll set the Album Artist and see if that makes a change.
Changing the album artists to "Various Artists" shows it on LMS as only one album. I realize your answer may be "well fix your #$%#$ library" but it'd be nice to have similar behavior between Google Play and this plugin.
The whole Library is built from individual track information. I'm not getting useful information which track belongs to which album from Google. So I decided to build albums from the album name, album year and album artist. If the album artist is missing I rely on the track artist. Thus, albums are split up for now if a compilation album does not have an album artist.
I found the current implementation quite reasonable, because building albums only from there album name and the year may result in merged albums whose name and year are identical.
But I can think of a configuration knob which allows you to select how albums are build internally. E.g. "album, year, album artist" or "album, year" or just "album". What do you think? The second option could work for you.