Bug 473273

Summary: Use musicbrainz IDs to disambiguate albums with same name and artist that arctually are different albums
Product: [Applications] Elisa Reporter: username85312
Component: generalAssignee: Matthieu Gallien <matthieu_gallien>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: jackhill3103, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 23.04.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description username85312 2023-08-11 08:10:14 UTC 
SUMMARY
Albums with the same names and artists are merged.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Add albums with the same artist and album.

OBSERVED RESULT
All tracks are added to the same album. Track numbers are duplicated multiple times. 

EXPECTED RESULT
Separate albums are created from MusicBrainz release ID or ISRC if those tags are present.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: 6.3.13_1
KDE Plasma Version: n/a
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.107.0_1
Qt Version: qt5-5.15.7+20221119_6

NOTES
Probably not worth fixing :)
Comment 1 Jack Hill 2023-08-11 10:42:27 UTC 
Do you mean something like the band Weezer where they have multiple albums all titled Weezer? I have sometimes wondered what would happen in that case but never bothered to look into it properly.

How are you storing the files? Do you have the albums split into different folders, or all tracks dumped into a single folder?
Comment 2 username85312 2023-08-11 10:53:08 UTC 
Yep. It's weezer. They were being stored in one folder, moving them to separate folders fixed it. 
(should I close the issue? it's still a problem you store all my music in one folder, but that's unlikely?)
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-08-11 21:07:12 UTC 
Elisa uses "same artist and album" to group songs into albums. It doesn't use musicbrainz IDs. I guess it could fall back to that in cases where an album would otherwise be inappropriately grouped.