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HedgeHog:
Hi,
Sorry if this may be a newbie question, I couldn't find any specific answers.
Anyway, I have some compilation albums that should display as various artists but the same album. In one case, it's The Collection: An Adventure In Sound (hybrid SACD) from Audio Fidelity. The redbook rip shows the tagged information properly and displays (multiple artists) for the album but individual artists per track all in one single album. But the SACD ISO file shows one artist for the whole album. If I try to copy the tagged info over to overwrite the artist field, it shows an album per track.
I noticed that there's a field called Album Type and the redbook shows Multiple artists (complete) and the ISO shows Single artist (complete). I tried to change that value to Multiple artist (complete) but it never stays and always revert back to Single artist. See attachments for example.
So the only way for me to display the ISO as a single album is to add Various Artists as the Album Artist.
What am I doing incorrectly so that both albums are showing as one album each?
Thanks in advance.
-Hedwig
blgentry:
What do you want to see displayed differently? Both albums show individual albums per track, but are grouped properly as full albums. Do you want to see (Multiple Artists) on the album thumbnails display instead of Various Artists? If so, just type that into Album Artist.
Brian.
Efjay:
Speaking for myself, it would be nice (as I don't believe this can be done) to be able to keep compilation albums whole (I do so by having the Artist tag be the Artist name and the Album Artist tag be Various Artists) but have each Artists's songs appear in the Artist view. This would be particularly useful to have split albums appear for both Artists and play all of the album's tracks from both Artists. For now I split the split albums so that only the Artists's portion appears in that particular Artist's view.
blgentry:
Efjay,
You probably know this but...
A. In a Panes view, Artist lists all artists, regardless of whether they are the album artist or not. So you can find them easily that way.
B. In any view, Artists view included, you can type some of the artist's name into the search box and it will bring up matches as you type. When you find the artist you want, you can click on it and it will show you the albums that artist appears on.
Brian.
HedgeHog:
--- Quote from: blgentry on August 09, 2016, 04:58:01 pm ---What do you want to see displayed differently? Both albums show individual albums per track, but are grouped properly as full albums. Do you want to see (Multiple Artists) on the album thumbnails display instead of Various Artists? If so, just type that into Album Artist.
Brian.
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Hi Brian,
If you look at the Artist field, the top JPG shows MC automatically filling in "multiple artists" while the ISO album shows what I had to enter "Various Artists". If I delete the Album Artist and just have the track's artists listed, it will display as many different albums.
As an exmaple, I've deleted the Artists field to match and pasted the Name and Artist from the proper redbook album. You can see each track has become its own album (uniquely identified by the track artist and the album name).
Hope this clarifies my question. Oh, the reason, I would like to put (Multiple Artists) automatically is so the artists+albums view are sorted properly. Otherwise, (Multiple Artitsts) for one album is on top and Various Artists is way down by the "V"s.
Cheers,
-Hedwig
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