Helium Music Manager User Forum

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Helo,

Helium always assign randomly wrong Album information to files who do not have an Album information, for example files in a folder named "Oldies" get as Album name "Oldies". Ok I can live with that but Helium does not put all the files in the folder "Oldies" to the Album "Oldies" so I have multiple "Oldies" albums in the Album view. Even removing the Tag Field "Albun" does not change anything. I cannot find a way to remove this wrong album information thus I have 10000 Albums (8235 wrong albums) Sometimes removing the files from the Library and adding them back helps but not always.

Manu


HMM 2008 & 2009

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Well that is odd. Helium shouldn't alter the tags in any way just because you add them to the database, or consider it to be of some album just because it is in that folder.

Where in Helium did you look when you saw the 10000 albums?

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HI there,

I was looking in Album view, and in Music Explorer\Album
Sometime Helium just an Album in 2 or 3 pieces without any reason, it would be verry fine to get a solution for this, it will take hours to merge all the albums again together grrrr.


Manu

[Listener]

So is Helium only splitting the albums into multiple ones, or does it assign wrong album names to files that don't have one actually?

The information in your first and second post are quite contradictory.

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Both, sometime it splitt Albums in 2 or more pieces or gives the Folder name as Album name. even removing the Album name from the Tag change nothing, the mp3 files stay in the Albums created by Helium Music Manager.

Regards,

Manu

[Listener]

Well, I don't have a good idea yet what to do here.
So lets start from the top.

What kind of folder strucutre do you have?
Something like artist\album (year\# tracktitle.mp3
or something else?

(No matter what Helium shouldn't add tag information to any files when adding files to the database, didn't see that once)

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Hi again, sorry for the late answaer I was out for a few days.

My Folder structure is verry simple:
Root-Folder ~Mp3
Subfolder #(For all Artist with starts with a number like 10000 Maniacs)
Subfolder (Artist)
Subfolder(AlbumName)

A
Abba
Thank you for the music

and so on

If I have songs from an Artist who does not belong to an Album, I put them directly in the Folder of Artist name and Helium assume than sometimes that the Foldername Abba is the Album name.
I also have a folder named
Singles
Than subfolders like
#
A
B
C
So Helium assume that some files I putted in the folder # belongs to the Album # This drives me crazy, even when I remove the Album information in the Tags, the Album and the files still stays there in the Helium Album view.

Hope you can understand my english.

Regards,

Manu