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Can you have single tracks appear in multiple Albums?

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jmone:
Say I want to have the following Albums (compilation of various artists):
- Top 20 Week 1
- Top 20 Week 2
etc

Obviously, many of the tracks are identical from week to week.

I know I could do this with Playlists, but
1) is it possbile to keep all the tracks physically ONCE on the HDD yet have them appear in multiple Albums under (My Fav View for Audio) "Album Artist (auto) / Album" view scheme?
2) Alternatively, can you make a Playlist appear under the "Album Artist (auto) / Album" view scheme?
3) Otherwise I'll just keep multiple copies of all tracks.....(disc is cheap)

fitbrit:
I've wanted this feature for a while too. Sometimes the exact same track appears on more than one album anyway, and it would be nice to replace the track on an older album with one of higher quality, for example. So that when that track is supposed to play, it's always the highest quality one that gets played, no matter which is the parent album.
I've long wondered whether MC could be developed to use shortcuts, or aliases in Mac parlance.

rossp:
or links in Solaris parlance.....

Gl3nn:
I've asked a similar question on the MC 16 board (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=67086.0) re: using 'Playlist Groups' in a Library View and not being able to have the Playlists sorted in the order they come.  Otherwise, I think the two "requests" are about the same.

Nobody from J River answered my question.

jmone:
Interesting, Shortcuts do work (sort of).  Create a shortcut of the track you want, import it into MC, add coverart, and tag it up.  When you play the shortcut, MC will go and play the real file.  Downside of course is all the autogenerated tags are for the *.LNK file not the actual music track (so this is really not a solution).

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