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[JackHughs]

I'm still working my way through the functions offered by MC - and I'm stuck on a Tagging issue.

The other day, I ripped a classical music cd that is a compilation of the works of several composers.  Now, under Audio > Albums, I have a bunch of instances of the same album.  Each of these "albums" contains only the music of one composer.

How can I create a "multiple artists" album to eliminate the current duplicate entries?

JackHughs

[Doof]

If all of the files are in the same folder, and the tracks are all sequential, and they all have the same Album tag, then MC should automatically tag them as a Multiple Artists album. The trick is to not use the [Artist] tag in your view schemes and instead use [Album Artist (auto)]. On a single artist album, [Album Artist (auto)] will have the same value as that artist. On a multiple artists album, the [Album Artist (auto)] tag will say "(Multiple Artists)". If you want it to say something else, then edit the [Album Artist] tag for those files and then [Album Artist (auto)] will have that value instead.

There's a more detailed example in the wiki if you're still confused. I admit it's not the most intuitive solution in the world, but once you get the hang of it, it's really simple and works really well.

[JackHughs]

Doof,

Thanks.

I had to manually re-assemble all the files into one folder.  Initially, folders were created for each artist and a subfolder was created within each of those folders with the name of the album.

All the files now correctly display in a "multiple artist" album.

JackHughs   

[Doof]

Yeah, that's the other step you'll want to do. You'll want to go into Options and change your File Location rules to use (for instance) [Album Artist (auto)]\[Album] and use that anytime you use MC's Rename tool. That way it'll automatically create a (Multiple Artists) folder for those albums.