collingfamily Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Tied to input soundtrack Coyote Ugly and it shows up as many albums Coyote Ugly Soundtrack Don Henley Coyote Ugly Soundtrack EMF Coyote Ugly Soundtrack INXS Anyway I can combine into 1 album, I know this is early Beta but this is a SHOW STOPPER for me using this software going forward. This is the 3rd album I added to collection 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 @collingfamily Most likely this is happening because there's no album artist in the album tags. Generally, for multi-artist albums, the Album Artist should be the same on every track (and it's usually set to Various Artists). Then the Artist field can differ on each track and it will still arrange it all as one album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collingfamily Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 As you can see from the image I posted with the original question, the Album is all set Coyote Ugly Soundtrack, am I missing something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunnoduran Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 (edited) On 7/4/2018 at 12:53 PM, Jason Carr said: @collingfamily Most likely this is happening because there's no album artist in the album tags. Generally, for multi-artist albums, the Album Artist should be the same on every track (and it's usually set to Various Artists). Then the Artist field can differ on each track and it will still arrange it all as one album. Yeah, but if I put the"album artist", I can't generate a playlist for the contributing artist. This upset me. ? Edited July 11, 2018 by brunnoduran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunnoduran Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 It should look more like the Launchbox. Add the option to edit the music by the software and create playlists based on the names of albums, artists, genres... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korbarn DK Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 I'm having the same problem, and I'm currently using the old winamp to bulk edit the meta tags. I do miss the CTRL+E function of LaunchBox and the "combine albums" so double CDs would show up just once, but still, that's not the point, the point is I don't want to fake the track's meta tag so it works on this specific program. The way I see it, it should be album driven, so it's more important the album that contains the artist and not the other way around, because albums are organized packages in itself, and artists go around playing with a lot of people, and, talking about artists playing around, there's another problem that comes along with the tag organization, some musics are from two or more artists, and that ends up creating a bunch of duplicates. A good way to work around this would be to display everything related to an artist in a single page, and under that page you'd have all his works and albums the artist has appeared on, and it could even have categories like "Studio Albums", "Live Albums", "Rarities" and "Appears in" which would show what other multi artists CDs this particular artist appear. Another good way around this would be to give the option of folder sorting, makes it so much easier and organic to deal with my library just moving folders around and splitting content. Anyways, keep it up, it looks great already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 @Korbarn DK Some good ideas there. I do plan to add browsing by folder options here at some point. The issue with going with a strict album approach (disregarding artist when separating albums) is that you simply don't know when albums match. Album titles are often similar between artists, so it's not like you can just distinguish between them just by album name, as it's a fairly common thing for folks to have two different artists that have albums with the same name. It could be done by taking into account other fields like the year, but again, that's not going to be a very reliable solution considering that metadata might not exist. This is an age-old problem with music players, and I've done a lot of research on it. The proper and most agreed upon solution at this point is to use the album artist tag; it's the closest thing to a standard that we've ever had on the subject, and it won't mess up your music anywhere else to add it. It will only help compatibility with other players going forward. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korbarn DK Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 5 hours ago, Jason Carr said: @Korbarn DK Some good ideas there. I do plan to add browsing by folder options here at some point. The issue with going with a strict album approach (disregarding artist when separating albums) is that you simply don't know when albums match. Album titles are often similar between artists, so it's not like you can just distinguish between them just by album name, as it's a fairly common thing for folks to have two different artists that have albums with the same name. It could be done by taking into account other fields like the year, but again, that's not going to be a very reliable solution considering that metadata might not exist. This is an age-old problem with music players, and I've done a lot of research on it. The proper and most agreed upon solution at this point is to use the album artist tag; it's the closest thing to a standard that we've ever had on the subject, and it won't mess up your music anywhere else to add it. It will only help compatibility with other players going forward. I think you'll have to make it a more opinionated software when it comes to these decisions, either way I can see that you always have the greater good in mind. I'll keep on the look out for more updates. Thanks for the reply, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidbottle Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Having the same issues as the others here, the artists tags will need a tonne of reorganising for sure. Will we have a feature in the near future to change this within MBA itself or is this only possible through windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 3 hours ago, acidbottle said: Having the same issues as the others here, the artists tags will need a tonne of reorganising for sure. Will we have a feature in the near future to change this within MBA itself or is this only possible through windows? Eventually I will be adding options for it, yes, even for non-standard artist configurations, or at least a way to easily fix the issue in the tags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidbottle Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Jason Carr said: Eventually I will be adding options for it, yes, even for non-standard artist configurations, or at least a way to easily fix the issue in the tags. Awesome Jason, looking forward to future updates. Tried a load of media players but they always look and feel clunky! This and LB are spot on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 8 hours ago, acidbottle said: Awesome Jason, looking forward to future updates. Tried a load of media players but they always look and feel clunky! This and LB are spot on. Much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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