i tried that, but albums still show up side by side , versus stacked/fanned.....the "secret" seems to be at the GENRE level almost all the important library fields are equal to "VARIES" [except, of course, GENRE].....this level shows all albums of that GENRE fanned (as it should). Drilling down another level to "ALBUM" level (even if all 10 albums in the group have the same name) they show up side-by-side because the Artist, Album Artist, Name, Composer, Comment fields inter alia fields are different (or at least i think that is the reason)...so trying to figure out how to make ALBUM view level be stacked/fanned so long as the Album title is the same.....but can't figure out which field causes the view to be side-by-side unlike the GENRE view.... I guess I could delete all the artists/album artist so they would be the same value (i.e. nil) but that seems a shame after typing in hundreds of these fields during the conversion process from LP to .wav