Can somebody tell me how to stop album tracks displaying in theatre view unless I select an album, I've tried all sorts of things including various expressions.
I want to list by artist, then by album, then list tracks by track number order, but ONLY when I select the album (how XBMC works - well mine did).
I don't want tracks appearing that aren't in dedicated albums i.e tracks on compilation albums that I want to handle differently.
As an example I have a lot of compilation albums such as ministry of sound but I also have albums belonging to artists on those 'compilations' and the single tracks from the compilation albums are appearing below the artist - this is messy. I was going to group compilations alphabetically by album name only - they have more than one artist.
Looks like I need another custom 'view' for compilation albums containing more than one artist.
Open to ideas.
That's funny, I've just started importing a lot of my Ministry of Sound discs.
Here's the way I tag things:
Album Artist: Ministry of Sound
Artist: Track Artist
Album: Album Name
Description: Album Version or Disc Name
If you leave Album Artist empty, the album will automatically show up under
(Multiple Artists) if there is more than one artist listed on the disc. In most cases that is fine, but with the Ministry of Sound discs, I want them to specifically show up under "Ministry of Sound" in the library.
Watch out though, as this may also impact other albums. For example, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories has a lot of collaborations on it, so it will show up under "Multiple Artists" by default unless you set the Album Artist to "Daft Punk" yourself.
For the disc name, I use the DJ Name, e.g. Boy George, Pete Tong, Judge Jules etc.
I also use the Description field when I have multiple versions of an album, e.g. the original CD (where it gets left blank) and "HDtracks" or "2010 Remaster" etc.
In Theater View, things get quite complex though - I wish there was a way to export my current view to a file I could post here.
For my "Albums" view, I have:
- Album Artist (auto)
- [Year] Album
- Channels
- Description
#1 is exactly as it seems, the library field is
Album Artist (auto)#2 is an expression:
formatdate([Date,0],yyyyMMdd) [Album]
<font alpha="50">delimit([Year],/],/[)<//font>
[Album]
Sorting is set to
Date (oldest first) #3 is another expression, though you can probably skip this if you don't have multichannel albums in your library:
[Channels]
<font alpha="50">[Album]<//font>
if(compare([Channels],<=,2),Stereo,Multichannel)
#4 is yet another expression:
formatdate([Date,0],yyyyMMdd) Delimit([Description])
if(isempty([Description]),[Album],[Description])
I've modified that last one a little bit, as it was including some custom tags that I use in my library, but I think that should still work correctly.
In most cases, this view only results in me selecting Artist → Album.
However, if I have multiple versions of an Album, it will show up as Artist → Album → Album Version (or disc name)