Missing images and album being split into single tra

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So i have uninstalled and reinstalled power amp and fiddled with various setting to get various problems fixed.

 

All the albums are copied straight over from my computer to phone untouched

 

I have attached screen shots to show the errors that I'm getting

 

1. Image albums missing

2. Albums being split up into single tracks

Track skipping

 

 

[andrewilley]

Tracks being split out into separate albums is controlled by the Album Artist tag, which is embedded within each audio file. I suspect this may not be correctly saved in some of your files. You can check this with long-press=>Info/Tags.

Cover artwork is embedded inside the files in the same way. If not found in the file, Poweramp can try to download album artwork based on the embedded data in the files (using tags Title, Artist, Album, Album Artist, etc) which it then caches locally for future use.

Andre

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All the albums are copied straight from my PC

 

The thing is that the plex manages to get 95 % of the album covers correct and doesn't split albums up so it can't be the meta data that you refer to in your reply.

 

Also when the blank covers come up and then I press the album art button sometimes the correct cover shows i select it but then there's needs to be an option to apply the correct cover to all the tracks that are selected. However when I try to apply the correct album cover to all the tracks tiu have to do it to each single track in the album

[MotleyG]

3 hours ago, blah blah blah said:

All the albums are copied straight from my PC

The source doesn't matter if the files don't have the Albumartist tag filled in, especially for songs from a compilation Album such as in your example.

3 hours ago, blah blah blah said:

The thing is that the plex manages to get 95 % of the album covers correct and doesn't split albums up

That is because Plex ignores most of your tags and works from within its' own database to assign the tracks to an Album and gets the artwork in a sijilar way. For users that have already done this work for their own files and have the data and artwork the way they want it, Plex is often a pain to deal with out of the box and needs to have a few settings changed to force it to use metadata as the priority.

3 hours ago, blah blah blah said:

However when I try to apply the correct album cover to all the tracks tiu have to do it to each single track in the album

This comes back to the Albumartist tag. Since Poweramp views each individual track with a different Artist as a separate Album when there is no Albumartist, they will all be treated as such. Until you assign the Albumartist+Album combination to be the same for these tracks it will continue to be this way. The Albumartist tag was created long ago specifically to handle this scenario. That is why virtually all decent players use it. And with a tag editor like mp3tag it can be applied quickly and easily to almost any size library.

[andrewilley]

@blah blah blah In tag-based collections, there are two things which indicate that separate tracks belong in one specific "album" grouping. The first, fairly obviously is the album name, which is stored in the Album tag. The must be the same across all songs within one album.

However that is not sufficient to be completely accurate on its own, as many different artists have released albums with the same names - such as "Discovery" by Electric Light Orchestra (1979) or Mike Oldfield (1984), and "Feels Like Home" by Linda Ronstadt (1995), Norah Jones (2004) or Sheryl Crow (2013). There also a ton of collection albums with titles like "Greatest Hits" by all sorts of artists. Plus albums where the songs don't even have the same artists for all of the tracks - such as genre or year-based anthologies, or film soundtracks like "Dirty Dancing", "Guardians of the Galaxy", "Top Gun, etc. Not to mention albums where some tracks feature guest artists or collaborators. So the using the Track Artist tag is not a reliable way to build up an Album entity, and if it has to be used then the results will be patchy at best.

Hence the use of a secondary tag, Album Artist, which remains the same across the whole of an album regardless of the performers of the individual songs. It is that tag which we suspect is not populated correctly in some of your music collection, which will cause the effect you describe. As I said earlier, have a look at the Info/Tags display for a few songs which are not getting grouped into the album names that you desire, and see what the Album Artist tags contain.

You can edit one or two incorrect tags directly from those Info/Tags screens, but trying to do that across multiple songs would be something of a chore. Instead I would suggest you spend a bit of time with a decent batch tag editor - such as MP3Tag or TagScanner on a PC - which can make the process a lot easier. Once you've copied the corrected files back to your phone, do a Settings=>Library=>Full Rescan in Poweramp to ensure it picks up all the changes. 

Andre