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Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

cyllell — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:35:24 GMT

I have just got a new Xperia SP and started transferring some of my music. Opening the walkman app I have found that many of the albums appear twice, with one of the tracks in one album and all the others in the second. This means it will not be possible to listen to an album properly without creating a specific playlist every time. Pretty annoying because I always listen to whole albums of music rather than shuffle random tracks. I used the same files on my previous phone (sony w995) with no problem at all, so don't understand why a much more modern sony phone is having this problem. Please can you let me know if there is anything I can do to fix this?

Many thanks.

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

Uliwooly — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:49:50 GMT

Open the track in different albums > menu > edit song > it has to be an issue with the album title and/or artist

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

cyllell — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:11:35 GMT

Thanks, I just tried that but they have the identical album name and artist. Both versions of the album have even been given the same album art! Struggling to get my head round it!

Thanks for the suggestion though! Any others gratefully received!

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

Uliwooly — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:25:19 GMT

You can transfer the music back to your PC > use either

MediaGo to retransfer your music

open the album with WMP then > right click the album > find album info > then drag or copy paste the album in your internal storage or sd card.

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

cyllell — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:33:10 GMT

Thanks again, I've tried a few things over the last day or so including re-transferring after removing some of the properties from the tracks (e.g. I found that the one track in the wrong album was recorded as being from a different year than the others, so removed that property in case it made any difference). Still didn't help when I transferred it back to my phone though. I have now transferred all the rest of my music across and all the new stuff is fine. Just the 5 or so albums out of the 10 I originally transferred that still have this problem. Is it possible that the walkman app has remembered the original split into multiple albums and so goes back to it when I re-transfer a cleaner version of the album? And if so does anyone have any idea how to remove that memory from the walkman?

Many thanks for any further ideas. Really appreciate it.

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

Illidan — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:10:49 GMT

Yeah, i got the exact same prob with my z1 compact. Its funny how no1 except has addressed this prob. Anyway, some1 plz give us a clean solution...

@cyllell: what did u do urself?

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

Gwen — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 07:44:30 GMT

Hi.

I had the same problem.

For my case, it was because of a difference in the ID3 tags.

I had some tracks where the tag "Album Artist" was filled with the same value as the tag "Artist" and the others where the tag "Album Artist" was empty.

It seems that every tracks of an album must have exactly the same value for tags "Artist" AND "Album Artist".

I hope it will help you.

Gwen

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

nkz1c — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 19:49:39 GMT

I found out the same thing. I guess that you have to edit all the ID3 tags (ALBUM ARTIST).. It is anoying, besause Itunes puts the songs together automatically... Further on there are albums with many artists...

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

Cris2k — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:13:26 GMT

I'm also having the same problem, with over 20 euphoria albums on my Z2 -.- how do i edit the id3 tags? im using windows 7

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

Gwen — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:37:53 GMT

I'm not using Windows 7 but I think it's directly possible with Windows 7 File Explorer (in my souvenirs, it was the case in Windows XP)

Try right click on your file, properties, summary, advanced

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

samrocks — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:12:44 GMT

Its due to different album artist (dont confuse with contributing artist)

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

Cris2k — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:05:30 GMT

For those with the same problem I found how to deal with this. So after looking at the album(s) in question on my laptop I found that several values are different for a few tracks. Firstly get the track name that has been seperated on your phone. Then on your computer look through the album for that same track. Then right click the track directly before it and click properties and then do that for the track that is seperated. On both properties windows select details. Then copy the previous tracks' album artist, genre, and publisher, so they are the same on both tracks. Make sure you then delete the album on your phone then copy the edited album from your computer.

Hope this helps.

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

addled1 — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:53:23 GMT

Thanks for this reply, it fixes the problem. I cant understand why Sony Walkman has this issue and other players seem to be able to tell the difference. My issue was that the "Contributing Artist" field was complete but the "Album Artist" field was blank on a few tracks, so Walkman split into 2 albums even though the "Album" field had the same name on all tracks and they were numbered in sequence.

PowerAmp can work this out and has much more functionality. I havent used it since ditching my Samsung 6 months ago. Im off to PlayStore to install it. I've also had a gutfull of problems with my Xperia Z3, so also considering ditching that too. aaah well....

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

spyrusthegreat — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 07:05:28 GMT

This bug is still valid on even X Compact with 9.3.5.A.0.0 version of Music Application having some FLAC files

Re: Walkman tracks split across multiple albums

G69 — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:22:27 GMT

Yep. The Z3/Z5 is a stinker. Great hardware, useless everyday functionality and user experience