Group shown when only one item..

[DavidHB]

(27-04-2015 18:20)simoncn Wrote:  Group is different from most tags because it creates an extra level of containment structure. To see the tracks inside a group, you need to open the group manually. The expectation is that you will almost always want to play the group as a whole (i.e., treat it as a single item) rather than selecting individual tracks from within the group. For music where this isn't the case, it would probably be more convenient not to tag it as part of a Group.

While acknowledging that this is a matter of personal preference, I tend to take rather a different view. I much prefer that each album, as so defined by MinimServer, should either be fully tagged as Groups, or not tagged as Groups at all. The reason for this preference is that I think that a mixed list of tracks and groups looks messy and confusing in the Control Points I mainly use (Bubble DS Next on Android and Kazoo on Windows).

For Eloise's first case (Swan Lake), I would either make the Group names subtly different from the title of the work (with a long ballet such as Swan Lake, I might use Groups to divide it into acts), or I might not use grouping at all.

The second example (the 1812 Overture) brings to mind the familiar case where a classical album mainly consists of one or more multi-track works but has a few single track works as 'fillers'. My practice with such an album is to group everything, even those works where the Group contains only one track, and even though this adds, as Eloise says, an extra and seemingly unnecessary selection step.

In practice however, Bubble DS Next gets me out of jail free on this issue. I tap on the one track group to select it, and there at the top of the track list screen is a convenient Play button, so I can play the group/track without having to select the track explicitly. Thank you, Bubbleguuum.

David