egd;314626 Wrote: > I haven't tested this, but AFAIK SC wouldn't care if every track for an > album was stored in a different folder - so long as the tracks are > properly tagged SC uses the tags to inform its decisions, and it is > only when tags are absent that SC looks to folder structure to inform > its thinking. If insomnia strikes again I might test this theory too, > just for the hell of it.
It does care. Ie, if you have Greatest Disco Hits and file albums like: Abba/Disco/01 Dancing Queen.mp3 Rod Stewart/Disco/02 Do You Think I'm Sexy.mp3 etc.. That will appear to SC as two different albums. It has to. How, through tags alone, will it tell that "tracks scattered across the drive in various subdirectories are from the same album, because they have the same name, unless of course tha album is one of those albums that has a title used more than once like Greatest Hits, MTV Acoustic, Acustico, Best Of, etc" It used to be that the 'Common Album Titles' was handentered, which became very confusing quickly, and hard to find the "oh crap, I have two albums named the same" stuff... That went away long ago, I think around 6.5? Directory layout has been used for handling Common Album Titles since then. Since we already know that the OP's problem is on VA releases, so a common artist cannot be used for grouping, and obviously, trackname is irrelevant to figuring out what album is what, that leaves us with the only tag useful for grouping as... the album tag. Which of these tracks are from the same album: ALBUM: Greatest Hits ALBUM: Greatest Hits ALBUM: Greatest Hits Feel like you don't have enough information? That is because you don't. You need to to know the path name to the albums, as well, to determine "oh, they are in different directories! I bet they aren't the same album!" -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49125 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
