Album View-Compilations

[simbun]

(25-03-2023 15:12)simoncn Wrote:  mergeFolderAlbums is only needed if the tracks of the album are split across different folders for the different artists. For example, iTunes organises its library in this way.

Admittedly since I've been using an album id to represent "album" I haven't had to understand all this complexity, but doesn't the iTunes layout match with what they're seeing, one compilation album per artist?

My assumptions are that AlbumArtist is empty and mergeFolderAlbum=false.

If I remove AlbumArtist from a compilation album (with files stored under one folder per disc), no matter how many discs I have I still have them grouped by album, albeit with a concatenated list of the artists as "AlbumArtist".

If however I split that compilation disc across individual artist folders then I see one album per artist. If I add AlbumArtist='Various Artists' then that does group them back to an album but only where there's more than one disc.

I forget how complicated this can all be! I'm sure you're right I just can't see what I've missed :-)