Album sorting based on pure album name alone

[misha0209]

Hello,

i really like how asset sounds on my setup, especially if i live transcode stuff to WAV.
and i like that DSD is presented correctly.
so i plan to buy it.

but before that, i really want to know if i can achieve what i want.
i made this dumb album called !random_tracks! where i just dumped all the songs i did not want to get the whole album for.
the purpose being having them all in one place, easy to find... and a replacement for unknown album, because i wanted my list to start with it.

so somehow asset is displaying the !random_tracks! albums tens of times, each time with one song. i saw that on the presentation page as a feature..
can i have the DUMB behavior to just group all the tracs with same album name under one entity?? does not matter what the artist or cd number or whatever is. i just want to through a bunch of tracks in one easy to spot bucket.

also, can i change where i start in the tree? for example if i want to be taken directly to all albums when i select the dlna server?

thank you !

[Spoon]

Tracks are grouped by the Album ID tag not the folder. So give all the files in that folder a unique album name.

[misha0209]

hi,
thanks for the feedback.
i went ahead and bought it, in my settup it just sounds too damn good. figured the rest is just nit picking..

back to yhe topic.
that is what i did, i edited the tags, and used the same name in the album field. files are NOT in the same folder though.
still i see a lot of entries.. i think it correlates with artist name, and makes a new entry for each different artis id3 tag entry.
i also have albums with tracks numbers split in 2, with tracks 1,3,4,5 on one album, and 2,6,7,8 on another.. strange...
again in album grouping, i would just like it to process the album id3 tag, and group all the files with same value under same entry.

[Spoon]

"files are NOT in the same folder though."

That is an option in Asset, Album defined by folder, as well as the tag.

[misha0209]

you mean this?

setting it to no seems to merge the unknown album tracks, but not the random tracks album items, those are still split.

[misha0209]

interesting i have a random tracks lossy, and here, except 2 items they are all under one instance.

so in the image, entry 1 and 3 of random tracks lossy are each one song. whike entry 2 holds many songs.

there are still multiple random tracks entries, but, some are now grouped! so there are ebtries now with more than one song. but most hold a single song...

[misha0209]

on another app it now has a commend that says folder trance, folder rock, etc...
is it now grouping by genre? it seems to.be doing it's best to tell items with same album tag apart. can i not disable this behavior? and just have it dumb down and group by album name tag alone?

[simbun]

Most servers use the AlbumArtist and Album tags to group Albums. Have you tried setting Albumartist to "Various Artists"?