Album art for compilations

[wrryntx]

I feel sure this is already explained somewhere but I have not been able to find it. What is the proper way to organize and tag songs in a compilation so that PerfectTunes AlbumArt recognizes the compilation and presents only a single entry in the list of "Albums Without Art". I have quite a few compilations that are working as I expect. However, I also have several that are appearing as individual songs in the list. The folder structure is "Various Artists"/<album name>/<songs>. I have used ID Tags to mark Compilation as Yes. The metadata is similar to cases that are working as expected.

[GBrown]

Do you have a common Albumartist tag for all of the tracks 9n this compilation? Usually this would be "Various Artists" or similar.

[wrryntx]

Thanks for your question. It helped me figure out that I was not seeing what I thought I was seeing. I'm still not sure exactly what I need to do to get what I want, but I'm pretty sure I can now figure it out.

[wrryntx]

Well now that I understand, this turns into a major "duh". Most of the compilations that were "working as I expect" weren't working as I expect. Just in case this helps anyone equally ignorant or unobservant: the key is indeed the albumartist tag, which is presented in the PerfectTunes tools as "Album Artist". Set albumartist to a consistent value such as "Various Artists" and (if you want) set Artist to the actual artist for the song. My music collection is a melange, which is a nice way of saying "horrible mess", of different sources including downloads from numerous services and CD rips using different tools over the years, so tag consistency is nonexistent. I look forward(?) to fixing it now.

[vilsen]

tag consistency is nonexistent. I look forward(?) to fixing it now.

If you have the album artists in the folder path, there are various programs that can use that to batch tag your albums.

[wrryntx]

Thanks! That may be necessary.