Thanks. I had missed that thread, and now, after having skimmed it, I just can't understand the logic being used here or why it would be changed to the way it is now.
While I can see a need to have single track albums recognized as complete albums, it would seem to me that it be the exception, not the rule. There are as many Track 1s as there are albums out there. There aren't nearly that many single track albums.
With this logic in place, it's impossible to build a renaming expression that keys off of [Complete Album] to determine if a track belongs in the Albums folder or the Singles folder. As soon as I just happen to have a single file with a Track # of 1, then it winds up in the wrong place. The only alternative is to abandon the use of an Album folder with singles, which then greatly complicates how cover art is stored.
Currently I use a system like this:
Music\Albums\[Album Artist (auto)]\[Album] for albums
Music\Singles\[Album Artist (auto)]\[Album] for singles
It keeps them seperate, and allows me to store cover art in the folder with the tracks.
I then use an Expression to rename my audio files and to make sure that Albums and Singles wind up in the correct places. But it's broken because of this behavior.
So you have a separate folder for each single track, correct? If yes, I think the system works correctly.
IMHO, the following albums should always be complete (when each file inside the folder has identical album tag):
-- Folder | \ Track 1 |
| \ Track 2 |
-- Folder | \ Track 1 |
| \ Track 2 |
| \ Track 3 |
E.g. these should be incomplete:
-- Folder | \ Track (without a track number) |
-- Folder | \ Track 1 |
| \ Track 1 |
| \ Track 1 |
-- Folder | \ Track (without a track number) |
| \ Track 1 |
| \ Track 2 |
| \ Track 3 |
-- Folder | \ Track 1 |
| \ Track 1 |
| \ Track 2 |
| \ Track 3 |
What happened to the "at least 10 minutes long" part? If that were still being enforced, things would work correctly, at least in my case. Although I still think the logic is severely flawed. Why break a system that works for 99% percent of the cases in favor of the 1%?
It was an artificial limit. Many complete CD or vinyl "single" releases are shorter than 10 minutes and some of them contain only one track. On the other hand many tracks are longer than 10 minutes.
To make everyone happy the "complete album" status could be editable. For example, the Album Artist (auto) field works automatically, but it can be overridden.
So that the 3 people with single track albums don't have to?
Not to sounds snippy, but it just doesn't make any sense to me why the vast majority of singles have to have a work-around so that the minority can take advantage of the automatic feature.So that the 3 people with single track albums don't have to?
And you seem to be one of the three...
If you don't have a separate folder for each #1 track then the logic is buggy and should be fixed.
If you have a separate folder for each #1 track, could you just remove the track numbers? That would be logical if the track is not supposed to be a part of an album that contains numbered tracks.
EDIT
BTW, probably very few of us even use the complete album info anyhow. I think you are the first one who has found the new logic problematic.