I just set up a new PC with Kubuntu and installed the newest version of amarok.

Now I built a new database and scanned the whole collection and this is what happned:

I have for example two folders like

B/Billy Idol/Billy Idol - His Best

J/Joe Cocker/Joe Cocker - His Best

Also in the tags of this two CD's the title of the Album is with both "His Best"

Now what amarok does, is it puts a folder into various artists like this:


His Best:

1 Billy Idol - Rebell Jell
1 Joe Cocker - Unchain My Heart
2 Billy Idol....
2......

First, is there a way to prevent this from the beginning?

And second, I now fixed this be going manually trough the whole Various Artists list and clicked on every wrongly placed album and told it - Don't display under Various Artists. So far so good, now they are separated in the list, but they still display the wrong cover. I have a .jpg with the correct cover in every folder. Can I tell Amarok to just display the first .jpg in the folder of the music file? I know I can do this manually, but it would be a PITA to do search trough the whole database to find the wrong covers.

Thanks for any help!

The determiner for whether something is shown in the Various Artists section is the Album Artist tag. If this is set, it won't be shown in VA; if it's empty it will. (The collection scanner makes guesses when reading in files which don't have this tag set as to whether it should be there, as it's not a standard tag and a lot of rippers/etc won't put it there, but as you've seen this isn't perfect.) You can ensure things end up in the right place by ensuring the Album Artist tag is set, or just select all the misplaced albums and use the 'don't show under various artists' action you've discovered (which just sets the Album Artist tag).

Now that the Album Artist tag is set correctly for the albums in question, a full rescan from the settings > configure Amarok > collection menu will file the albums correctly and pick up the album images from the right folders. You can also just reset the covers yourself, either from the files or using Amarok's built in cover retrieval.

Thank you very much for the clarification. My collection is quite big, and it would be a real pain to add in the Album artist for each album manually with a mp3 tagger. Does anyone know of any batch utility for Linus or Windows (can access the collection on my nas from both)which is able to simply copy the artist from a whole bunch of mp3's in sub folders to the same mp3's Album Aritst?

you could try something like puddletag (you'll need to use "actions" or "extended tags" I think)

easytag in git has been patched to do this http://comments.gmane.org/
gmane.comp.audio.easytag.general/689

maybe id3v2 command line in a script

googled and found http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/gener ... ion-68338/ but no idea if a) will run in Wine or b) how good/legit it is

Irwin J. Finster wrote:Thank you very much for the clarification. My collection is quite big, and it would be a real pain to add in the Album artist for each album manually with a mp3 tagger. Does anyone know of any batch utility for Linus or Windows (can access the collection on my nas from both)which is able to simply copy the artist from a whole bunch of mp3's in sub folders to the same mp3's Album Aritst?

Check out mp3tag: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
It may do what you're looking for. I know it at least has batch processes to parse file names and automatically put them in tags. By far my favorite id3 tag editor that I've used (I stopped using all other editors for this purpose, including winamp). I, too, have a massive library that just keeps growing (754 artists, ~3000 albums so far :)) and I've found this program a much more useful management tool than the others that I've used.

Kamui-chan wrote:Check out mp3tag: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
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This is irrelevant, he is not using Windows, please read before you post such things.

Mamarok wrote:

Kamui-chan wrote:Check out mp3tag: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
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This is irrelevant, he is not using Windows, please read before you post such things.

He asked for a tool for "linux or windows" and I happened to know of one for windows.

Oops, my bad, didn't see that line, sorry for the noise