Originally Posted by
BrodyBoy
Well, not necessarily. It's not the file organization on your computer (i.e., what you see in Windows Explorer) that keeps the albums separated in your music players. It's the tags inside the files themselves.
Your players don't rely on just one tag to define an album. Usually, they will group them based on ALBUM ARTIST and ALBUM. So this takes care of your question, where The Eagles and Queen, and many other artists, may have an album entitled "Greatest Hits." But beyond that, it's not that unusual for different artists to have albums with the same name. (For example, I have two or three albums called "Duets," by different artists, and at least two entitled "Blue.")
So think of players grouping tracks in a two-step process....first, all tracks with the same ALBUM ARTIST tag will be one big group. (My hundreds of "Bob Dylan" tracks, for example.) Then, each of these ALBUM ARTIST groups is further divided by their ALBUM tag. (All those Dylan tracks are separated into their respective albums.)
So the tracks that have ALBUM=Greatest Hits + ALBUM ARTIST=Eagles aren't going to be mixed up with the ones that have ALBUM=Greatest Hits + ALBUM ARTIST=Queen. All your Greatest Hits albums will be separated this way by your players.
(But again, this is a completely different conversation from how the files are saved and organized on your hard drive...that's a naming issue. If that's your primary concern, and your files aren't getting organized the way you want, you may want to start a new thread about that.)