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ferday:
When you say Album View, are you talking pure graphic like cover slide or the "standard" album view with the covers on top and album details on bottom?

i just took the stock "Albums" view, and changed the Categories>Album to


--- Code: ---if(isempty([album info]),[Album],[Album]-[Album info])
--- End code ---

and indeed all of my copies of nevermind are separated as if they were "different" albums

not sure this is what you mean....?

I also have rumours on cd and dvd-a, it works for that too ;)

It returns two icons with the same art, one called rumours and one called rumours-Remastered 2011 WB DVD-A

blgentry:
Ferday:  Yes, that's exactly what I mean:  The included Albums view that shows just album covers.  If you double click on an album you get a pane down below with a file list.

I'm puzzled as to why your Album view behaves differently than mine.  With both of my Rumours albums set to the same Album name and then same Artist name, they both show as one album.  When I double click it I get a file list below with the tracks from both albums.  1 1, 2 2, 3 3, etc.

We must have something key that's different in our tagging.  I've just highlighted all tracks from both albums and opened the tagging pane.  I see the same values for all files in:  Album, Album Artist (auto), Album Artist, Artist, and a few others.  How do yours compare?  Same values in all of those fields or ...?

Thanks,

Bria.

ferday:
Right click your albums view, customize

Replace the "category" albums on the left with my expression and you should see the same results As me

All my albums are tagged identically other than the date (release), album info, etc

(see below...this is the stock view, it used to say "Albums" but i just did edit and replaced with my expression)

what it seems to do is just leave albums without album info alone and make "new" entries for those that aren't empty

blgentry:
I hadn't thought of replacing the grouping field in the View definition with the expression.

I tried your expression as a field instead of Album (edited and replaced it).  It shows the right information, but the Rumours albums are still grouped into one.  When I double click all songs from both albums are there.

This is very odd.  I'm sure one of us is missing something.  (probably me)

Brian.

blgentry:
Ah ha!

I *was* missing something.  My customized field name is "Album_info".  Note the underscore ( _ ).  Yours has a space.  I forgot to edit it to put in the underscore.  Now it works!

Very nice.  Ferday is schooling me today!

Brian.

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