How can I consolidate multiple albums?

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I’ve imported my large (to me) music collection, and overall its worked well, the only issue is I now have lots of duplicates of the same album, each with some tracks in them, such as

\Crowded House\Recurring Dream_ The Very Best of Crowded House [153]
\Crowded House\Recurring Dream_ The Very Best of Crowded House [154]
\Crowded House\Recurring Dream_ The Very Best of Crowded House [155]

My understamding is Beets imported these tracks from different directories, so the aunique option checked and couldn’t find a good reason for the albums to be seperate, so used a sequential number. Is there a way to tell beets not to do that, or to move these tracks all into one album folder ? (if I removed the aunique from the path in my config, would this do that ?)

Paul.

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Hi! You do indeed want to merge these albums together. It would technically work, for the purpose of unifying those directories, to remove %aunique, but I recommend against that—you’ll be happier if beets actually knows that this is one album.

Here’s an old post from the mailing list that’s still relevant:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beets-users/EhJXmqWNr6o