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Replaygain "Scan Selection As Albums (by tags)" groups by Ar

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After running Scan Selection As Albums by Tags on these files, they should all have the same REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM values, no? I've tried re-tagging these files with ID3v2.4 and APEv2 but it's made no difference. FLAC and Ogg files seem fine.

Title     Artist     Album     REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM     REPLAYGAIN_ARTIST
Glorious Anthem [Dragon Spirit - Loading]    Rolando [Puchi]    Brave Heart ~ Dragon Spirit & Dragon Saber Arrange    -3.69 dB    -3.69 dB
Rising Waters [Dragon Saber - Area 01]    Shinji Hosoe    Brave Heart ~ Dragon Spirit & Dragon Saber Arrange    -4.51 dB    -5.15 dB
Volcanic Geyser [Dragon Saber - Area 02]    Rolando [Ctrl+z]    Brave Heart ~ Dragon Spirit & Dragon Saber Arrange    -3.88 dB    -3.88 dB
Gravestorm [Dragon Spirit - Area 04]    Rolando [Umeo]    Brave Heart ~ Dragon Spirit & Dragon Saber Arrange    -4.82 dB    -4.82 dB
Undiscovered Paradise [Dragon Saber - Area 04]    Shinji Hosoe    Brave Heart ~ Dragon Spirit & Dragon Saber Arrange    -4.51 dB    -3.64 dB
Fault Line [Dragon Spirit - Area 05]    Rolando [Ma-Ko]    Brave Heart ~ Dragon Spirit & Dragon Saber Arrange    -5.15 dB    -5.15 dB
Iceberg [DragonSaber - Area 06]    Rolando [Sho]    Brave Heart ~ Dragon Spirit & Dragon Saber Arrange    -4.95 dB    -4.68 dB
Hidden Horror [Dragon Spirit - Area 09]    Rolando [Hide]    Brave Heart ~ Dragon Spirit & Dragon Saber Arrange    -5.31 dB    -5.31 dB
Terminate [Dragon Spirit - Ending]    Rolando [Fetimaro]    Brave Heart ~ Dragon Spirit & Dragon Saber Arrange    -5.55 dB    -5.55 dB
Wings of Hope [Dragon Spirit - Area 01]    Rolando [Sho]    Brave Heart ~ Dragon Spirit & Dragon Saber Arrange    -4.95 dB    -5.18 dB

Replaygain "Scan Selection As Albums (by tags)" groups by Ar

Reply #1
I think that's because it also looks at the album artist when seeing if it belongs to the same album.

Do the tracks have the same album artist?

Replaygain "Scan Selection As Albums (by tags)" groups by Ar

Reply #2
If you don't want to tag your files with album artists, you can also change the album grouping pattern to remove "%album artist%" under the "Advanced" section of preferences.

Replaygain "Scan Selection As Albums (by tags)" groups by Ar

Reply #3
or you can just select the album and brute force "Scan as single album".

Replaygain "Scan Selection As Albums (by tags)" groups by Ar

Reply #4
If you don't want to tag your files with album artists, you can also change the album grouping pattern to remove "%album artist%" under the "Advanced" section of preferences.
... and use $meta(tagname), then you know exactly what it's doing.

Replaygain "Scan Selection As Albums (by tags)" groups by Ar

Reply #5
That track list came from an MP3Tag export. I'll look into exactly which tags are being written here.

Replaygain "Scan Selection As Albums (by tags)" groups by Ar

Reply #6
%album artist% was null for all those tags. I'm curious why the grouping list %album artist% | %date% | %album% ended up sorting by artist at all. However, it looks like just removing %album artist% from the grouping will do the trick for me. I have a lot of multi-artist soundtracks with no notion of %album artist% unless you count the arranger.
Thanks for the tips.


Replaygain "Scan Selection As Albums (by tags)" groups by Ar

Reply #8
Having %album artist% as the first choice for grouping albums isn't a good default setting if it will remap to %artist%. At the very least it's counter-intuitive.

 

Replaygain "Scan Selection As Albums (by tags)" groups by Ar

Reply #9
Having %album artist% as the first choice for grouping albums isn't a good default setting if it will remap to %artist%. At the very least it's counter-intuitive.


No its not, its convenient. If you don't want remapping, use $meta(album artist)