Handling music boxes

[simoncn]

(28-12-2014 19:47)Fritz Wrote:  Good evening Simon,

Thanks for the help and the extremely helpful hints.

Using the Grouping approach I have now an "Album "Mercury Living Presence 1" with each CD as a sub-Album. (Comparing the number of albums before and after setting the mergeFolderAlbums I had to chase some loose ends). I tried out to use a blank as value for the ALBUMARTIST tag, but apparently white space is ignored so I used the "Various Artists" value you proposed.

I couldn't come up with a solution to two minor problems:

• Is there a way of having the album cover of the grouping album different from the cover of the first CD in the box? Background: I have cover images in the tracks included.
  

If you have embedded album art within the tracks of the album, it isn't possible to use a different image for the overall album. See this section for more information.

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• At the end of the sub-album (cover-icon) list I find (using the Naim app under "#") a list of folder links e.g. >> Disc 1, >> Disc 10, >> Disc 11 etc.
  I do not have this with other albums where I used the GROUP tag. Is there anything obvious I might overlook?
  

You need to disable the A-Z sort setting in the Naim app. Disabling this will show these disc header/divider lines in their correct positions. You are seeing these headers because the album is tagged with multiple disc numbers.

Also, because this album is tagged with multiple disc numbers, the album discs will be merged automatically without needing to set mergeFolderAlbums to true. I will edit my earlier post to clarify this.