Album Artist= 10 Ft. Ganja Plant ends up as "10" and "Ganja Plant"

[alan9990]

My nephew gave me a couple of .m4a albums from his Apple music. Wherever possible I like to preserve the exact artist/album artist naming as given by the band, as also shown e.g. Discogs.

The artist name (and directory name) is "10 Ft. Ganja Plant"

and includes the full stop.

It seems that Asset (intelligently, but unhelpfully) has decided that 10 Ft. is supposed to imply "featuring" and has now created 2 album artist entries: 10, Ganja Plant. Worse, they aren't grouped together.

I've been trying to use the User Rename List to correct this, but since it causes Asset to rescan my entire library, I'm around 25 minutes between trials to see if my edits work.

I'm currently using:

Album Artist:10 Ft.:=10 Ft. Ganja Plant
Artist:10 Ft.:=10 Ft. Ganja Plant

but either my syntax is incorrect... or this is something coded into Asset?

For just one artist (2 albums) I can rename the Artist and Album Artist, but naturally I'm interested in how the remapping should/might work because there are going to be other instances as I work through the list of Album Artists (in order to check misspellings, odd grouping etc).

FWIW I have a lot of 'international' music, and since my system correctly displays languages in all fonts (Asian, Korean etc) there may well be other instances where I will need to manually remap.

[Spoon]

Uncheck the option to 'Combine Duplicate and Similar Artists' and it should no longer split it. (trigger a rescan, refresh all after).