HDX : one album with different artists

Posted by: Svital on 13 June 2012

Hello,

Albums are sorted by album name and artist when browsing.

If one album has different artists (Best Audiophile Voices for example), each track is a different albums.

Is it possible to change in the HDX tools?

Or do I have to change flac tags in order to view only one album?

Stéphan

 

Posted on: 14 June 2012 by Phil Harris
Originally Posted by Svital:

Hello,

Albums are sorted by album name and artist when browsing.

If one album has different artists (Best Audiophile Voices for example), each track is a different albums.

Is it possible to change in the HDX tools?

Or do I have to change flac tags in order to view only one album?

Stéphan

 

 

You will need to edit the tags to have the same Artist name I'm afraid...

 

Cheers

 

Phil

Posted on: 14 June 2012 by rjstaines

I use MP3TAG to move the artist so that it prefixes the title (artist, title) and then replace the artist with 'Various Artists'. That way you preserve the artist information for each track, but only get the one entry for the album as a whole. The processes can be automated quite easily using MP3TAG's inbuilt script facility. 

 

Don't be misled by the software name, MP3TAG handles other formats including 192/24 FLAC... and it's free (but if you're really impressed, you can make a donation). 

 

For HDX ripped albums, you're down to using the HDX editing facility track by track; I haven't found a way of automating this (yet).