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Compilation albums - how to group the tracks into one album?

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blgentry:

--- Quote from: Mr Swordfish on June 28, 2023, 12:15:18 pm ---Under Tools -> Options -> Tree & View -> Sorting

There's an option to "Ignore articles when sorting" along with an editable field to say what articles you'd like to ignore.

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Glad you found that.  I feel like that setting should be on by default.  I turned it on about 6 months into using MC.

My example about Rolling Stones was from a project I was doing for a friend that has a gigantic library.  I was trying to canonicalize his naming.  In some cases he was using both versions (with and without "the" for a particular artist).  We discussed, band by band, which ones did and did not need "the" in front of them.  I still feel like a lot of bands need "the" because that's how I've heard and read about them so many times.  "The Who" is a good example.

Anyway, my main point was that you could change a common attribute across a large group of files.  I've also used this capability to change GENRE for an entire artist.  Back when I was trying to categorize by Genre *and* Style, I did that a lot.  Unfortunately I found that project too difficult and gave up.  I don't use Genre or Style anymore and just ignore those tags. 

Best of luck with MC!

Brian.

lepa:
I think that [Album Artist (auto)] (Multiple Artists) logic will be broken if there is multiple albums in the same folder. In that case MC thinks that album artist (auto) should be same as artist. To solve this you can either set Album Artist to (Multiple Artist) or use individual folders for every album.

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