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bitchkat:
I have a few albums with duplicate names.  For example The Violent Femmes and The Butchies both released an album entitled "3".  In this cases, PictureFlow is only picking up and displaying one of them.  Is there any way to get it to realize that they are separate albums?

epithetless:
It is actually picking up all of the albums, but it lists all the files for those albums together under the single album-name heading. I'd say this qualifies as a bug, but unless/until it gets posted to the Flyspray tracker and changed by a dev (who agrees that it's worth changing), I believe the only way to get the albums to display separately is to differentiate them in the files' tags. This is a problem not just with PictureFlow, but with the database in general (which PictureFlow draws its data from).

Llorean:
There's no way to distinguish "two albums with the same name" from "one album with two artists for the tracks" based on existing tags in use. Until a separate "album sort" tag is used to invisibly have more unique identifiers, there's just nothing to be done.

If you want albums to show up uniquely, give them unique names.

soap:

--- Quote from: Llorean on July 26, 2009, 04:22:17 AM ---There's no way to distinguish "two albums with the same name" from "one album with two artists for the tracks" based on existing tags in use.

--- End quote ---

Rather than use the rare album sort tags, the more common Album Artist tag would solve this. 
Each of the two albums named "3" in the original post would have the same name in the Track Artist as well as the Album Artist tag (though obviously different from the other album) and a compilation album named "3" would have non-matching Track Artist and Album Artist tags.

The only place where this solution breaks down as far as I can see is if two conditions are met:
1 - you use a common Album Artist tag for compilation albums - "Various" for example
and
2 - you have two compilation albums with identical album names.

I think the collision rate would be quite low, though.

On the other hand:
The advantage of using an album sort tag is that it would also solve the (rare) problem of when an artist releases multiple untitled or eponymous albums.  I, personally, distinguish these cases by release year, but that is something the database (and therefore pictureflow) currently can not handle.

Something like musicbrainz's unique album ID would work as well.  I'm not sure what field it populates with that.

Avalon:
I like PictureFlow as well and have often thought that it would work much better if it displayed the Artist and Album in separate lines with the Album Art. 

If it did, it should address the problem you are seeing and also get away from having to modify the ID3 tags.

I have editted the ID3 tags to include the artist and album in the album tag so that the Picture Flow groups each Artist's Albums, but this complicates other uses.

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