When does Foobar2000 recognize an album as an album? Options

[sodof]

Hi everyone,

I already searched the forum a bit but did not find the answer to my (probably simple) question: When does foobar recognize an album as an album? Or how can I tell it that a couple tracks (with different artists) all belong to one album?

My concrete issue: I have a number of albums with various artists (aka samplers). The individual tracks are tagged with the different artists, but each album has the same Album Artist and Album Title tags in every track. Shouldn't they then be recognized as whole albums, isn't this what the Album Artist tag is there for? Foobar, however, still shows me the albums as several albums, one for each artist. The files are FLAC, in case that matters...

Cheers, Sodof

[derty2]

I don't see a problem with EAC or foobar2000 or your title-formatting display preferences.

EAC, out of the box, just writes normal tags fully readable by foobar2000; it does not create wierd or bad tags.

Analyze one of these 'bad' albums ripped by EAC...

Create a blank new playlist and drag all your target files from Explorer into foobar2000, and have a look,
select all in the Playlist and go into Properties.
Do you see some Tag in Properties which may cause this problem?

Compare the problematic album with a known good album...
Drag the known good album into the same Playlist, and go into Properties.
What difference in Tags do you see between this good album and the bad album?

What happens if you change your formatting pattern to this test pattern (just for testing):
%album%[ '['$if2($meta(album artist),%artist%)']']|[[%discnumber%.]%tracknumber%. ][%track artist% - ]%title%.

What is your formatting pattern for ...Library Viewer grouping, or Playlist Viewer grouping, or Both?

What is your user interface ...Default UI, or Columns UI?

This post has been edited by derty2: Feb 23 2012, 00:08