Rigoletto appears as 27 different albums

HDTracks' tagging leaves much to be desired - though this sounds like an Album Artist vs. Track Artist tag issue.  Mac or PC?

Hi David,

It's PC

Hi David

Download mp3tag from here http://mp3tag.de/en/index.html its a great free app to sort out your issue. It will help you to retag the album as David suggested above.

Graeme

Thanks foxman, but can you explain what kind of 're tagging' I need to do?

Each file contains not only the audio data itself, file name etc but other information - metadata - embedded in the file.

What you are seeing is the directory and file structure as displayed by your computers operating system but not the metadata. 

The metadata contains "tags" such as "album title", "album artist", "artist", "year:, "genre" etc and is readable by streamers, n-Stream etc and tagging programmes. This data can be edited using e.g. mp3tag, dBpoweramp and other programmes. It is potentially more useful than just giving the folder containing the tracks the same name as the album, and helps for more sophisticated searching.

It is not that unusual for these tags to be missing or just plain wrong. Also, there is endless controversy with classical music on what data should be in the artist etc tags!

For instance, the tags may have been written so that each aria has the soloist as the artist and album artist - each track will then be seen by the control point (n-stream etc) as a separate album, even though this is not reflected in the directory structure!

You can edit these in a way which makes more sense to you.

Sorry if this seems long-winded....

Regards,

Vlad

Thank you Viad, for an exceptionally clear explanation, which nobody could describe as long winded! I now know where to go next. Will report progress in due course.

Sorry, it's Vlad, not Viad. Eyesight at my age.....,,,,,

Sorry  to come into a thread late. 

I had a few badly formated HDTracks & yes I agree they need to sharpen up some

One was really screwed & others needed some fine tuning. I found doing some basic corrections in Windows Explorer beforehand meant the files were set OK & in one case I did not need to go playing with tag stuff.  

I assume its downloaded into the HDT folder in Windows

In Windows Explorer

Check & correct

First folder named as the artist or orchestra

Secondary folder is the recordings name (Rigoletto)

In that folder goes all the tracks but numbered correctly (this was wrong in my case)

01  Preludio ed Introduzione

02

03

"

"

11

12

13

Finally the art file

Delete the file already loaded in your NAS & start over,  also worth trying it first in USB

I downloaded mp3tag and with a bit of trial and error, I now have Rigoletto appearing as one album in Nserve. Thanks to all contributors.

Foxman, to fix Rigoletto, I blanked the  'Artist' field, which was different for every track, thus triggering the multiple albums in Nserve. If I now want to put an artist name in, can I do it across all the tracks in one go, or do I have to edit them one by one?

Yes you can. Open the album in mp3tag and select all tracks using "ctrl-a" then write in the name in the desired field on the left. Click save, job done. The software is hugley flexible, if you have any changes you want to make, and cant see how to, ask on the mp3tag forum. You will get a response very quickly, i usualy do anyway.

Graeme

That worked. Thanks Graeme.