GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 783888
Music splits albums incorrectly
Last modified: 2017-10-21 10:35:36 UTC
Created attachment 353936 [details] tracker info I have a lot of duplicated albums in my collection where the first song is separated from the rest. For example: Artist Album: 1 Fist song. Artist Album: 2-10 Songs. I've looked into this and the difference between both files is the tracker tag 'nmm:musicAlbum', for some reason tracker adds the date at the end of the tag and in the first song it's different. I have no idea where is that date taken from since banshee or easytag do not show that id3tag information. This only happens in gnome-music, banshee, kodi and the app in my android phone have the same file and they all identify all songs belonging to the same album properly. See attached tracker info output for the first 2 songs of one of my albums where this happens.
Possibly a duplicate of 781957 and 781903. I'm seeing the same thing but with a full timestamp appended to the album. It looks like gnome-music is stripping this stuff from the property for display but since it's using sparql grouping the albums are shown separately.
Created attachment 353938 [details] albums with timestamps
It is the same basic problem as in #781903 . The problem is indeed the date tag, but as you say it in comment #1 it doesn't show up in easytag. It can still be there, just be ignored by easytag. Maybe try mutagen or just check the file with a hex editor (ghex should do the trick) and dump what is in the header.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 781903 ***