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

[kode54]

I'm not sure on that one.

Anyway, regarding album artist, for all relevant formats, supported file tags are mapped to "album artist" internally. Any files which are known to use "albumartist" will be read as "album artist" and written as "albumartist".

Another issue which cropped up due to the period in which foobar displayed ID3v2 TPE2 as "band" while storing its "album artist" as a TXXX frame named "album artist", files which were tagged with both fields will display two values for "album artist" in the current version when using default settings. The fix is to mass set "album artist" to format from the script "$meta(album artist,0)" on all affected files.