Hey Rusty, thanks to you and the team for the steady stream of updates. With that being said, I have to report that the sorting/split issue still pops up but it is considerably less frequent than before. I can live with it, but it seems you guys are making progress in trying to fix this bug.

Screenshots taken from [1490]:

Thanks for the update--it must have been caused by the same issue that triggered http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=9345 .

-Rusty

Appears to be fixed in [1490]. Albums are no longer sorted incorrectly in the playlists above. Thanks!

Wow, glad I wasn't the only one experiencing this. Tough problem to "google" as well. I hope they fix this bug. Presently using same view as others, art with details and i hate how MM separates the same album into three different sections because it thinks cd's 2 and 3 make it entirely different artists.

Hope they fix this soon!

I also have this problem.

Thank you, I'm going follow the bug tracker.

Bug still present in 1476.

wow, another user has this problem sorting under advanced autoplaylists. At least I'm not going crazy

Not a double-post -- or not entirely. I was also responding to the this:

theta_wave wrote:Any other Gold/Lifetime users have this problem when viewing their albums under autoplaylists?

Double post: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=64035#p328640

Please don't: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40381

I am using 1470 (with Gold).

I too have noticed Auto-playlists doing some kooky things with 4. (Under Art With Details view.) For instance, I have a "Recently Added" auto-playlist. I sort by Date Added (Z... A) and Album (A... Z). But sometimes the albums are split weirdly, e.g., track 1 taking up its own slot, the rest of the album immediately below, taking up a new slot. The problem seems to come and go, however.

Also -- and this may be a bit off-topic; if so, I apologize -- I've noticed (and posted about it regarding an earlier iteration) that, on my computer, multi-disc albums (in which each disc shares the same album name and is distinguished using the Disc# tag) sorted by Path are split into separate entries when viewed in Art With Details mode. This never happened for me in any version of MM prior to 4.

I find it unfortunate. Separating multi-disc albums by disc is a concession to CD's and CD-ripping and should not, IMO, play any part in how albums show up in MM -- nor did it prior to 4.

A couple things I discovered in the thread I started on this topic:

(1) Not everyone has this problem, which perplexes me. (Could it be a problem on my end? But... how?)

(2) I can correct the problem by clicking the "Path" field once (inverting the display order). Then the multi-disc albums only take up one slot. I can then click the "Path" field again, righting the display order, and all is well with the world -- until I move to another folder (or reselect the same folder).

nohitter151 wrote:

theta_wave wrote:Any other Gold/Lifetime users have this problem when viewing their albums under autoplaylists?

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=64001&p=329494&hilit=order#p329494

No, the problem still exists under 1470.

I made a screencast of the problem trying a variety of earlier suggestions such as manually editing the tags in Mediamonkey, etc. Please view the vid at 480p or larger. Each time I used a suggestion the end result is the same: The album is still displayed as split. On the last example, an album is grouped fine in one autoplaylist but is displayed as split in another. All of the sorting criteria from the autoplaylist advanced tab is shown. I never had this problem in my extensive use of Mediamonkey (beginning at 2.5.5) until the release of version 4.

http://youtu.be/y1Y39rQbVuI

Any other Gold/Lifetime users have this problem when viewing their albums under autoplaylists?