I am trying to figure out how I might change something related to the way recordings (mp3 or wav) appear in your library that is on the left hand side of Clementine when the program is opened. The way my library directory is structured: My Music\Recording Artist Name\Title of Album\Numbered Song Titles. For some reason all recordings that have various artists in a compilation never appear under the recording artists name, I use various artists under Recording Artist Name for these type of recordings when placing them in the directory. Examples of what I mean are the compilations entitled "Living in Oblivion, the 80's Greatest Hits Volumes 1 thru 5, or Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the "80's Volumes 1 thru 14. I started using computer media players with Windows Media Player, when using that player all the recordings in compilations filed in the directory under various artists get sorted under the proper recording artists name so long as the tagging has the recording artists name under Artist and Album Artist. Amarok or Banshee use the same way of sorting and placing songs. Songs in the various artists folder that are listed by album titles and then song titles in numerical order will appear under the recording artists name when sorted into the library listing in Amarok, Banshee, and even in the latest version of Rythmbox (Rythmbox has this strange flaw of not numbering songs number 7 and 8 in the library listing). The latest versions of Debian's operating system 10 has dropped Amarok and Banshee, so now I am trying to figure out how to get Clementine working the same way when sorting out recordings and listing them under the recording artists' name. This is not to be seen as Clementine is the last resort, I have used Clementine for years. The one thing I know that does work is changing how you place recordings in the directory. For every compilation with various artists you would have to create a new folder with the album title into all the different recording artists' folder and then move the one or few songs that are in that compiliation into that folder, that breaks up the entire album into little pieces and you loose having the entire recording album in one location listed in the directory for reference or editing. When you start getting into one hundred compilations that is a lot of changing, in a compilation with 20 different recording artists you have to create 20 folders with the album title that has only one song in each folder. The way Windows Media Player worked, along with Amarok, and Banshee you had to create only one folder with the album title as the label of that folder. So my question is how can I make Clementine work the same way with my music directory as Windows Media Player, Amarok, Banshee, and the latest version of Rythmbox when placing songs in compilation albums with a variety of different recording artists.
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