I need to explain in more detail:
Here goes.
Are you saying that MC shows the album multiple times, with 1 or 2 tracks in each of those albums?
If so, select all the tracks that belong to one album. Then, use the Tag Action Window, and examine the Album name. Does it say "Varies", or is it the same name? If it varies, then click in the Album field to set the exact title for all the tracks at once. Refresh with F5 should cause MC to show the tracks in a one album. Note: the files must also reside in the same directory.
I have tried all of the above from your supplied link......NO JOY.
I think it is a problem with different composers/artists per track, thus play around with the customize view setting.
The way i do it. (It works good for me, but i am no expert. )The view scheme is Album first and then Album artist (auto). And when an album has different artists, I just keep the artist the same (meaning having different artist per song), but change all album artist tags of the album to Various Artists.
(i just realize you are talking about mc17 while i am still using mc16, so thjs may be useless info)
I have tried this and again NO JOY.
As for "Alex B's" description of Album/artist field....my system does not show that.
Trying to use the correct terminology for MC this is what I use.
MC 17.0.189
Set using the [left tree side] Audio/Artists
Set so that each artist is shown alphabetically and each album is listed within that artist.
Nominally the files are FLAC and some mp3 and a very few[which are problematic] wma files. A total of 85859 files or 2.0TB
the files [in the main right hand pane] are columned as "Name-Artist-Album-rating-genre-etc. [not showing Album/Artist(auto) as seen in "Alex B's" suggestion on the link suggested.
the problematic ones/Artists are the following:
(Multiple Artists) - Unknown Album - Unknown Artist - Various - Various Artists & albums [as link suggests] shoiwng several times with 1 or more tracks of the album?
All the files/tracks/albums are in their own respective folders in explorer [all kept in a seperate external server speifically for music usage].
The above has been an issue since I have been using MC for approximately 10 years. With the exception of this issue and a few minor and corrected things...[probably in your archives somewhere] it has been the most satisfactory item of software I have ever had.
If screen shots of my set up would be of any use then I would be glad to send them as long as someone would explain how to do that satisfatorily.
Thanking anyone for any help in this matter.
PS: my apologies if there are multiple typing errors here....I hae MS and amongst other things typing is difficult.