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

[sodof]

Ok, now I found the problem... Although there is nothing visible in the ALBUM ARTIST tags of my files, there seems to be some sort of zero value to the tags. When I manually remove the album artist tag, foobar suddenly finds the ALBUM tag instead. I will do that with all those faulty albums now and should be good then.

Thanks a lot for the help!