AlbumArtist - tag field

[Audiophile Neuroscience]

Re JRiver

Most albums have a single artist with all of the tracks on that album by the one artist. MC automatically groups these tracks into an album displayed under the one thumbnail picture.

 

Compilation albums have multiple artists and in standard view schemes MC will list albums multiple times, once for every different artist's name on the compilation album. Thus multiple representations of the same album.

 

So, to group tracks that all have the same [album name] together to appear as one album under the one thumbnail pic, MC uses either the [Album Artist] field or [Album Artist (Auto)] field.

 

If [Album Artist] field is typed in manually that value is automatically entered into the [Album Artist (auto)] field as well. Each individual track will still have its own respective artist but all tracks will be grouped as the one album.

 

[Album Artist (Auto)]  is a built-in field which auto-completes if the [Album Artist] field is left empty…..but,

o   All tracks must have the same [Album] field value

o   If all tracks have the same[Artist] then it uses that artist.

o   If there are more than one artist it uses the default of "(Multiple Artists)"…, in order for (Multiple Artists) to appear automatically the album must be in its own exclusive directory and contain only audio files.

 

NB You can put whatever you want into [Album Artist] and MC will use that. Call it "My Compilation", "Best of 80's", whatever. This will display your compilations by what you called them mixed with, in alphabetical order, regular albums.

[Audiophile Neuroscience]

17 minutes ago, Music Matters said:

I never thought that is possible to have more than one albumartist field, but If it works for me it is fine, I will give it a try. Thanks...

 

 sorry, I may have misunderstood your question.Typically people want to know how to stop MC from listing individual artists for one album in the "artist" library view

 

Yes, simply placing a  ;   between artists allows you to nominate as many individual artists listed in the artist library view as you want.

 

I use this function to indicate cover versions for example. So, you could list [artist1;Beatles Cover]. Every artist that has covered the Beatles, and you have tagged as such, ends up showing in the folder next to the Beatles (but only in the artists library view).

[Audiophile Neuroscience]

4 minutes ago, Music Matters said:

No problem, I just want to be sure that I do it for both JRiver and Roon, because in the future I will probably also use Roon, so I don't want to do it twice.

 

I can't answer for Roon.

Good luck!