Music album with various artists shows as many separate 1-track albums for each artist.

[fuxoft 6]

I've just started using Emby for music and I am probably missing some very basic settings. I have a music album that contains 100 tracks by 90 different artists and it shows as 90clarity different albums (with same name and cover art), each with 1or 2 tracks. I want it to show as a single album.

Edited May 30, 2025 by fuxoft
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[user24 312]

Hi, it looks like you may need to set the Album Artist to be the same for all of the Songs of the Album. Probably Various Artists would be suitable for your example. There is more info from Emby here:

https://emby.media/support/articles/Music-Naming.html

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Tagging your albums and tracks should be straightforward with the possible exception of various artist or compilation albums.

For these types of compilation albums if you want all tracks to show up as a single entity you want to make sure both the "album" and "album artist" fields are the same for all tracks. Otherwise the album will be split up for the various artists listed.

You could do this just within Emby, but I'd recommend using a tagging program such as Mp3tag (or similar) to update your embedded metadata in the music files and then rescan the parent folders to import the changes.

[fuxoft 6]

Oh, you are right, it was the MP3 tagging problem. Thanks for the pointer.