If you "monitor" an artist, on a scan all albums by that artist will be scanned in, and not just the albums, it also immediately marks those albums to be monitored and then as a result scans all those albums as well and adds all the tracks from all those albums to the download queue.
If ones intent is to "download everything from an artist" when you "monitor an artist", then the system is working as designed.
I don't, though, find that to be acceptable. It takes the whole thing from "this is useful to download some tracks to listen to offline ( or on Linux or in your car without internet )" to "this is a tool designed to implement mass ripping". The latter is problematic and undesirable in my view.
Fortunately there is an easy fix for this; just comment out the line that "monitors" each album right after adding is when scanning an artist that is "monitored". Doing that lets the scan pick up the albums but not go through them and add all their tracks.
If you "monitor" an artist, on a scan all albums by that artist will be scanned in, and not just the albums, it also immediately marks those albums to be monitored and then as a result scans all those albums as well and adds all the tracks from all those albums to the download queue.
If ones intent is to "download everything from an artist" when you "monitor an artist", then the system is working as designed.
I don't, though, find that to be acceptable. It takes the whole thing from "this is useful to download some tracks to listen to offline ( or on Linux or in your car without internet )" to "this is a tool designed to implement mass ripping". The latter is problematic and undesirable in my view.
Fortunately there is an easy fix for this; just comment out the line that "monitors" each album right after adding is when scanning an artist that is "monitored". Doing that lets the scan pick up the albums but not go through them and add all their tracks.