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blgentry:
The answer is to cut and paste this into the [Album Artist] field:

(Multiple Artists)

That's it.  That will do exactly what you want.  Now, why doesn't this happen automatically for your ISO files?  I don't know.  Perhaps because the tracks inside and ISO file, which are not individual files, violate the "rules" for creating that (Multiple Artists) entry automatically.  Or perhaps it's because you've divided the ISO into two albums:  On multichannel and one 2 channel.

Either way, the answer remains the same:  Put (Multiple Artists) into the [Album Artist] field for those albums.  Done!  :)

Brian.

HedgeHog:
D'Oh!  That was simple.  Weird that it didn't automatically do it for this one.  I wonder if the fact that the ISO contains both 2 and 5 channels tracks was the issue.  I named one ...[2CH] and the other ...[MCH].

Thx again!

Cheers,
Hedwig

scolumbo:
Something that I discovered somewhat by accident, but it's another option for organizing SACD ISOs. Instead of naming the 2 channel and 5 channel tracks in the ISO as separate albums, create a view with "channels" as one of the criteria. When you select "2" it will display only the 2 channel tracks in the ISO for playback, or 5 (or 6) will display only the multichannel tracks. Of course, you can do this for a single album or your entire library.

I prefer this as a way to keep my ISOs organized as single albums while allowing me to have control of what is displayed and/or played back. This also allows me to quickly see the ISOs in my library that are multichannel for example.

HedgeHog:
Thx for that tip.  Why didn't I think of that...feeling kinda dumb.

BTW, is there a way to add a field to the displayed info under the album image?  I've revised the sorting to include channels but instead of just showing "Artists - Albums" under the cover art, it would be nice to show channels too (or an expression like "if [Channels] = 2 then display 'Stereo' else display 'Mutichannel'".  Or something like it.

Cheers,
-H

blgentry:
Go to the top of your view and click on the little down arrow to get a menu.  Thumbnails > Thumbnail Text

Now you'll see a dialog box that lets you type in whatever you want for thumbnail text.  You can put [Channels] in there if you'd like to see that info.

Brian.

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