Thanks. Yes, I discovered changing to: ZZ Top > ZZ's Greatest Hits > Legs.mp3
after I posted. I backup regularly. (It's a habit I picked up during 40 odd years in the computer industry. ;) ) On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 3:22:40 AM UTC-4, noel dennis wrote: > > HI > I've had this problem and very simple solution try this see how it fits > > Bruce Springsteen - Springsteen( or whatever name you wish (Bruce's)) > Greatest Hits > Born To Run.mp3 > and > ZZ Top > ZZ's Greatest Hits > Legs.mp3 > If you change the album name by having the artist's name or ??? then each > artist's greatest hits will be under that artist, > > > Get Easytag and Krename all linux distros have them > > SO Put the artist name Prefix on Greatest Hits on that folder > then > the filename of the songs in that album you can use Krename and do it this > bit quicker > in Krename look for the page 'filename' and in there look for 'find and > replace' > > ZZ Top > Greatest Hits > change to > ZZ Top > ZZ's Greatest Hits > > in easytag no need to bother with the file name did that with Krename only > need to change one item > remember to save your work after a few albums you can forget so check > preferences in easytag for the reminder prompts are checked > > in easytag change the field/tag for Album Name to the new name > > don't try to do all on one day just a few at a time > Once you are done for that day or evening save the changes to your backup > (you do have A Back-up um ?) that should be on an external separate > harddrive, better safe than having to re-do all that work. > It might seem like a lot of work, it's not that bad really and once done > and saved, I tried to explain this as easily to do as possible in-case > someone else reading this is not familiar with Easytag or Krename or UH not > familiar with Linux > > and that should fix that > Hope it goes easy peasy for you > On Friday, June 21, 2019 at 3:33:44 AM UTC+10, MacThe Real wrote: >> >> So, I have a medium sized library. >> >> I have 20 or so artists/albums where the album title is "Greatest Hits". >> >> In the library list ALL the tracks on all albums "Greatest Hits" albums >> show up under a single album "Greatest Hits" under "Various Artists". And >> the album art is always the cover of the first song in the list. >> >> For example if a Bruce Springsteen song from his greatest hits album is >> first then the cover is his. And there are tracks from Springsteen, ZZ Top, >> Felix Mendelssohn, The Byrds are listed in the album. >> >> Doesn't matter what I select for filtering. >> >> My files on disc are set up <Artist><Album><tracks> so: >> >> Bruce Springsteen >> |____Greatest Hits >> |_______Born To Run.mp3 >> ZZ Top >> |____Greatest Hits >> |_______Legs.mp3 >> etc. >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> Mac >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clementine Music Player" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/51bd177a-0f81-4703-b086-1b478169b0f4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
