Missing Album view in music section

[brianlam 11]

Is that normal no Album can choose in music section? 

I can view the Album by click the three dot and select view album

Please help.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, are your audio files tagged with album values?

[brianlam 11]

Sorry, I don't know what "album values" is, hope the album.nfo file can help, thanks.

album.nfo

[brianlam 11]

This tag?

[Luke 42077]

Yes. You could try refreshing the metadata on your entire music library.

[brianlam 11]

Sorry, I don't know how to refresh the metadata, I try to rescan the library, but can't solve the problem, can teach me? Thanks a lot.

[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, brianlam said:

Sorry, I don't know how to refresh the metadata, I try to rescan the library, but can't solve the problem, can teach me? Thanks a lot.

Hi, it's under the 3-dot menu for a library. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[brianlam 11]

Yes,it works, thanks for your help.

But I have another question, why the same album separate by artist? Can I group as one?

 

[Luke 42077]

HI, 

Take a look at the embedded tags within the audio files. If these are supposed to be the same album, then they need to be tagged consistently with the same album value as well as albumartist.

This is the big change from 4.5 to 4.6, that the embedded album tags are now used. That means that just putting tracks together in a folder doesn't make them an album anymore.

[brianlam 11]

Thanks for your quick reply.

I find two songs only artist and album artist are different, so, one album only can have one artist? or I can do something to make it as one album?

[Happy2Play 9780]

Technically the AA would be Various Artists and that would merge all the Album items into one album.

[Happy2Play 9780]

But you can add multiple AA's listing all Artists to all tracks.

[brianlam 11]

8 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

But you can add multiple AA's listing all Artists to all tracks.

Yes, it works, thanks a lot.

[Luke 42077]

11 hours ago, brianlam said:

Thanks for your quick reply.

I find two songs only artist and album artist are different, so, one album only can have one artist? or I can do something to make it as one album?

The artist value can be different for each track, but the album artist and album values need to be consistent in order for them to be in the same album.

[brianlam 11]

On 5/21/2021 at 11:36 PM, Luke said:

The artist value can be different for each track, but the album artist and album values need to be consistent in order for them to be in the same album.

Thanks, I got it now.

[Luke 42077]

4 hours ago, brianlam said:

Thanks, I got it now.

Thanks for the feedback.