Handling music boxes

[DavidHB]

(29-12-2014 12:16)Fritz Wrote:  I used the Group tag previously -see the screenshot for Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. This is what I would like to use for the Mercury Box too.

I'm afraid I haven't quite got my head around what is causing the difference you want explained - Simon is the expert on that. But it does occur to me that you are using the GROUP tag rather in the way that the DISCSUBTITLE tag is meant to be used - see this section of the User Guide for the explanation of this.

Does this matter? Maybe not; as I said in my previous post, there is no one right way of doing things. But if you use the GROUP tag to identify 'sub-albums' within a boxed set you cannot then use it to identify individual works (sonatas in the Beethoven example). As in such a case I would often wish to identify and play a particular sonata, I prefer to use the 'Disc n' feature (or DISCSUBTITLE if the discs need to be individually named), and then to use GROUP to identify the individual works.

Often in my collection, the contents of the COMPOSITION and GROUP tags are the same. I use the former to identify works within a browse sequence (often, obviously, from a selection by composer) and the latter to identify the contents of a particular album.

The other point I would make is that, while it is not essential, I think that the results look better in the control point if either all the tracks or none of them have the GROUP tag populated; a mix of Group headings and track titles tends to look messy. Sometimes adding Group tags to all the tracks will mean that a Group contains only a single track; this is not something that worries me.

David