Handling music boxes

[simoncn]

(26-12-2014 18:32)Fritz Wrote:  Good evening David and Simon,

thanks a lot for your detailed replies. I tried out the following:

• Created a folder "Mercury Living Presence 1" with the tracks of each CD in a separate sub-folder
• Copied the ALBUM tag to the GROUP tag and prefix with the string "CDnn"
• Changed all ALBUM tags to "Mercury Living Presence 1"
• Emptied the ALBUMARTIST tag
  

However I do not get the desired effect of having one "Mercury Living Presence 1" album with the CDs as "sub-albums". At a first glance this is due to the different artist values. So I guess I need to follow Simon's advise to give up the CD-subfolder structure and put all the tracks in the "Mercury Living Presence 1" folder. This seems pretty awkward to me. Is there another way of doing this? ... Also in the overall approach I feel to be misusing the grouping feature....

You can achieve what you want (without changing the folder structure) by setting the ALBUMARTIST tag for all tracks to the same value. Many people use the value "Various Artists" for this. In addition, you should set the mergeFolderAlbums property to true.

Edit: If this album is tagged with multiple disc numbers, the album discs will be merged automatically without needing to set mergeFolderAlbums to true. This mergeFolderAlbums settings in needed if you have a single-disc album whose contents are spread across multiple folders.