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cochinada:
That is a very good idea indeed!
I'll try it for sure.

How exactly can I create a custom tag like "Music Type"? I forgot  :-[

zybex:
Tool->Options->Library&Folders->Manage Library Fields

cochinada:

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Thank you. I've created "Music Type" following your suggestion and already filled the correct value on all files


However, I still have a small issue...

In order to have this nice grouped view I still have to use Categories and File Location because the way I achieve this is by creating the same subfolders 0-E, P-Z, etc on my disc:


and if I remove this Categories I end up with this mess:

zybex:
You can get the same by setting the category type to "Library Field", selecting [Artist] or [Album Artist] (or any other grouping you like), then check the "Grouping" checkbox below with a Grouping Size=3 or 5 or more.
Folder location doesn't matter for this.

cochinada:
Thank you!

Interesting option but not sure if I can achieve the same, as I'm seeing two obstacles.
Let me give you one example of what I have called Genre=Soundtrack.

a)
Some soundtrack albums have only one artist like for instance Hans Zimmer, for which I have several albums.
All his albums are stored under '/Musica/Popular/F-O/Hans Zimmer/' and I like to display all his albums under his name, after selecting 'F-O' and then drill down to show the albums.

b)
However, other soundtrack albums have several artists and those are stored under '/Musica/Popular/(Various Artists)'.

The difference, with my current scheme of showing things is that for a) all albums are grouped by artist (e.g. Hans Zimmer inside of the alphabetic group that it belongs to) but for b) they are not grouped at all and instead, are shown by Album name only. So there is actually another sublevel involved when the album has only one artist that simply doesn't exist in the case of 'Various Artists'. How to achieve the same without resorting to my brute method?

The other issue I'm seeing is that this automatic grouping does not take into consideration the amount of albums inside each group. One can easily fall into the case of one group having too many and another too few. As I've created the groupings myself, when I did it, I roughly counted the number of albums between two letters in order to achieve a better balance. This is why I have awkward divisions and not a steady and constant number of letters like A-C, D-F and so on like in your example.

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