What, nobody's excited about this? :p
Never mind! I totally understand that this is a very niche subject. And
may be my "discovery" is something that was already well known. But I
didn't find any information about doing this when I searched. The one
cue file per track method I described in the previous post seems to be
an effective way to assign audio files to multiple "albums", without
making a physical copy of each file. So far as I can tell, it's the only
way to do it that works with the LMS database. (Symlinks would work
fine, if you only browse through the file folder.)
I'm going to add a few more observations, just in case somebody
discovers this thread in the future and needs a bit more information. I
should mention that all my experience is based in Linux: LMS runs on
Debian and my music is on a drive formatted as ext4. I don't know how
well anything I report will translate to other environments.
It seems that the cue files do not have to be in the same folder as the
audio files, but all audio files for an album need to be in a single
folder. Let's say that I have a folder for one of my favorite musicians,
who goes by the name, Artist01, and in that folder is a folder for a box
set, entitled BoxSet, and I've just added a folder for an album,
Album01, that is entirely contained in that set, but in the wrong order
and intermingled with other tracks. All the box set files are in
Artist01/BoxSet, but the cue files will be in Artist01/Album01. I have
used relative paths in my tests, so the file statements in the cue files
will look like this:
Code:
--------------------
FILE "../BoxSet/01 - This is the first track.flac WAVE"
--------------------
Absolute paths would probably work, too, but I have not tried them.
Moving the cue files into a separate folder for each album this way may
be helpful for organizing a music collection, but unfortunately it does
not help with other issues. Album art will be displayed from the audio
file's folder; any "cover.jpg" or other appropriately-named files in the
folder with the cue files will be ignored. Likewise, if you use the
Music & Artist Information plugin, its links to "Local artwork" and
"Text files from music folder" will also ignore the cue folder and list
appropriate files in the folder with the audio file.
This is in danger of becoming intolerably long, so I'll end this post
here and continue in a separate one.
LMS (recent) running on Debian X86_64; 5 Squeezelite players (3 in
PiCorePlayer), 3 players connected via Airplay Bridge
1 Squeezebox Radio (upgraded UE Smart Radio) now mostly retired
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