I've got two singles by the same artist, which both have the same title. They're in different directories, but Amarok (1.48 on Gentoo) insists on treating them as one release. Is there anyway to prevent this?

change the title of the "album" slightly so that Amarok can tell the difference. Something as simple as changing capitalisation should work.

Unfortunately, everything's tagged via Musicbrainz so that's not really an option.

Just because something has been tagged by musicbrainz, doesn't mean you can't manually edit the tags...

Perhaps just setting different disk numbers for the two singles is a reasonable compromise.

dangle_wtf wrote:Just because something has been tagged by musicbrainz, doesn't mean you can't manually edit the tags...

Yes, but a) I'm using Musicbrainz so am therefore incredibly obsessive about getting the titles right and b) they'll just get overwritten when I re-tag everything again.

What I really want is some way to use the other info MB has to separate them.

As martin says, try setting the disk number.

Why would you obsessively re-tag everything? Once you've tagged a track, those tags are not going to change unless you change them - and in that case your changes would surely be deliberate - so you're biting your own tail.

In amarok, you're not going to be able to sort the albums separately without modifying the album tag (or the artist tag, but that opens another can of worms).

just had a thought... does the year differ? If so, make sure you group by artist/album/year and they should show up separately.

dangle_wtf wrote:Why would you obsessively re-tag everything? Once you've tagged a track, those tags are not going to change unless you change them - and in that case your changes would surely be deliberate - so you're biting your own tail.

Because I have something over 10,000 tracks now and remembering which ones I've adjusted and shouldn't re-tag would be annoying.

dangle_wtf wrote:In amarok, you're not going to be able to sort the albums separately without modifying the album tag (or the artist tag, but that opens another can of worms).

Perhaps something for a future version then?

dangle_wtf wrote:just had a thought... does the year differ? If so, make sure you group by artist/album/year and they should show up separately.

In most cases they're CD singles released in multiple versions.