Need help with sort or removing albums from library

[mcow1]

New user here. I have a series of comp albums which are being sorted as a separate album for each artist for a total of 180 albums. I'd like to either remove them from the library, there's no delete on a right click, or have them show as the 9 albums they actually are. I'm sure there must be a way, or I'm trying in the wrong place. Please help

[garym]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

New user here. I have a series of comp albums which are being sorted as a separate album for each artist for a total of 180 albums. I'd like to either remove them from the library, there's no delete on a right click, or have them show as the 9 albums they actually are. I'm sure there must be a way, or I'm trying in the wrong place. Please help

do these albums have the COMPILATION tag set to "1" (i.e., "on")

[mcow1]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

do these albums have the COMPILATION tag set to "1" (i.e., "on")

I have no idea what this even means or how to do it. Now this thing has taken about 100 albums and put them in one ghian unknown album 117 hours long. I can see no rhyme or reason one album is in there correctly the next one in the same folder and same naming format is in the unknown album. Very frustrating

[garym]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

I have no idea what this even means or how to do it. Now this thing has taken about 100 albums and put them in one ghian unknown album 117 hours long. I can see no rhyme or reason one album is in there correctly the next one in the same folder and same naming format is in the unknown album. Very frustrating

Then you are doing something very, very wrong. What does your dynamic naming string look like.

[mcow1]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

Then you are doing something very, very wrong. What does your dynamic naming string look like.

Again I have no idea where to find something like that

[garym]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

What did you rip your CDs with? Dbpa or something else?

[garym]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

What did you rip your CDs with? Dbpa or something else?

What happens when you look at your directory containing your albums with some other player (iTunes, winamp, foobar2000, WMP, etc. ). Are the organized properly?

[mcow1]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

What happens when you look at your directory containing your albums with some other player (iTunes, winamp, foobar2000, WMP, etc. ). Are the organized properly?

CDs are ripped with EAC. Foobar shows most with a question mark for artist/album

[garym]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

CDs are ripped with EAC. Foobar shows most with a question mark for artist/album

This tells me that some tag fields may be missing. Hard to tell in foobar2000 as it will guess from filenames I recall. Open some of these files in mp3tag, right click on file, and select extended tags. Do files have album field? Artist field?

What sort of files? FLAC, mp3, ? If wav then all bet are off as they have no standard tag method.

[mcow1]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

Mostly flac, some wav.

[mcow1]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

MP3Tag shows no tag, title, artist or album with them

[garym]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

MP3Tag shows no tag, title, artist or album with them

This tells me that when you ripped them you didn't add tags. But surely you did. ???? If the directory structure and file names are good you can use dbpa DSP to create tags from filenames. Mp3tag will do the same thing. But bottom line, without tags, I'm not sure what ASSET has to go on. You need to solve/clean up your tag problem.

[mcow1]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

I guess EAC doesn't add tags. Luckily foobar will scan freedb for them. Took hours but I got most of them. Thanks for the help.

[garym]

Re: Need help with sort or removing albums from library

I guess EAC doesn't add tags. Luckily foobar will scan freedb for them. Took hours but I got most of them. Thanks for the help.

EAC will add tags if setup to do so.