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Re: Google Music issue with "Unknown Album" (NOT resolved thru Google Play Help Center)

lddk23 Jun 26, 2012 7:51 AM
Posted in group: Google Mobile Help Forum

Categories: Android Devices : Android Applications :

I have the exact same issue, and have been searching for quite some time for a fix. I'll point you to this post ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1097434), which suggests a desktop application (MusicBrainz:  http://musicbrainz.org/used to change your ID3 tags in your music library, then let the Google Music Manager find these "new" songs and upload them. This should (in theory) let you go onto the Music web interface and delete the giant "Unknown Album". Which should then (in theory) not ever cause your phone to try and download to offline. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm going to soon. Let us know if you get to it first.

This seems like it may a reasonably easy fix, in terms of time and effort, although it remains to be seen what % of songs it will fix. I definitely don't want to change 500+ missing Album tags...