Foobar 2000 (IOS) Multiple copies of the same album showing up on the "Album" view.

[Lord Szechenyi]

Digging around on the internet I found that it's the %ALBUM ARTIST% tag but there is no such tag in the metadata

 

P.S : my music files are .VGM

[RainfallWithin]

The first thing I would try is seeing if an MP3 or FLAC album appears correctly.

 

You can also post a screenshot of the problem so we can see it for ourselves.

[Lord Szechenyi]

1 hour ago, RainfallWithin said:

The first thing I would try is seeing if an MP3 or FLAC album appears correctly.

they do

1 hour ago, RainfallWithin said:

You can also post a screenshot of the problem so we can see it for ourselves.

[RainfallWithin]

Ah, I think I understand a bit better.

 

I organise my music in a playlist view, because I prefer the way it's organised compared to the standard 'library' view.

 

Here's a screenshot of my foobar2000 layout:

 

 

Do albums appear correctly, with only one of each showing, when added to a playlist? If they appear correctly in playlists I'm not suggesting you change to this view permanently; it's only to figure out where exactly the problem is visible.

[Lord Szechenyi]

9 hours ago, RainfallWithin said:

Do albums appear correctly, with only one of each showing, when added to a playlist? If they appear correctly in playlists I'm not suggesting you change to this view permanently; it's only to figure out where exactly the problem is visible.

yeah of course since a playlist doesn't look at the album, it just plays all the tracks in that playlist

 

But that doesn't solve my problem since it's a playlist and:

A - It's not an album, it's a playlist

B - There's no album art for playlists

[RainfallWithin]

After a few days thinking about this, I have only 1 more suggestion to try.

 

I presume your .VGM music files have a separate image file for the album cover, compared to MP3 and FLAC files that can have the album cover image embedded.

 

Try going to File > Preferences > Display > Album Art and temporarily removing the text under Front Cover.

 

[Lord Szechenyi]

39 minutes ago, RainfallWithin said:

Try going to File > Preferences > Display > Album Art and temporarily removing the text under Front Cover.

I'm on IOS so I don't have that option