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For example, when I uploaded a folder that represented an album I had ripped from CD. The album has multiple artists so Koel broke it out into individual albums.

If you want Koel to recognize the CD as a compilation CD, you'll have to tag the songs accordingly. @jacobgkau's approach is indeed one way to do so.
You can also send a song that Koel fails to recognize as part of a compilation album to [email protected] so that I can take a look.

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I agree 100% with this.. It's like Koel is ignoring metadata completely.. I have had my 2tb collection for years most of it I worked on tirelessly making sure all info is there. Some I got as FLAC no metadata there still Koel needs to function better than this. My music is all over the place. Player is really nice and I love visualizations but if it cannot detect files correctly its beauty is only surface level..

Thanks for an awesome tool but it still needs a lot to become my defacto organizer..

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The album has multiple artists so Koel broke it out into individual albums.

I experienced this with my library, too.

As a workaround, adding an "Album Artist" tag set to "Various Artists" (or any other single string) to all of my multi-artist albums seems to make Koel group them together. Lots of other music players (e.g. VLC for Android, Elisa, Lollypop, Quod Libet, etc) don't require this, but I believe iTunes does (at least in older versions).

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"Update the metadata for every album you have" is not a reasonable solution or ask of users to a problem that does not exist in most media players.

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I build and test Koel with the media files I have, which don't have the problem. To try to fix the alleged bug, I asked for a sample file (which no one sent btw). If you're not happy, go use any of those "other media players." I don't owe you anything.

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