Single artist albums going into "various artist folder"

[redlad]

Hi, hopefully someone can tell me what to do.
If I rip a cd of a single artist, if they have dueted or collaborated on a track then the album automatically goes into the "various artists" list??.
I can delete the 2nd artist in the tags which stops the issue but then their name doesnt show in the album track list. Is there any other way of moving album from various artists to its own artist heading?

[tonyneen]

You could MOVE the dueted or collaborated artists name TO a featured artist on the track TITLE,

this would show the dueted or collaborated artists name as part of the TITLE in the ALBUM track list.

For example,

Original

21 Reasons - Nathan Dawe & Ella Henderson (the album containing this track would be placed in various artists)

Modified

21 Reasons (Feat. Ella Henderson) - Nathan Dawe (the album containing this track would be placed in Nathan Dawe album location)

BTW Using ALBUM ARTIST tags would NOT achieve what you want to achieve (I THINK)

[redlad]

Thanks for the info, I will see what I can do. My Album is a Nelly album where he features different artists on different tracks so might not be that easy ☹. It would be nice to still have the other artist listed in the track listing whilst having the Album in the "Nelly" folder.

[tonyneen]

It's only a matter of cut & paste in MP3TAG, if you don't put the effort in, you won't get the best results.

[TouchJams Support]

Per Tony - "BTW Using ALBUM ARTIST tags would NOT achieve what you want to achieve (I THINK)"

To fix this issue I would recommend using ALBUM ARTIST tag:
1) put all ripped files into the same folder
2) set the Album Artist tags to the same exact value for all files
3) set the Album tags to the same exact value for all files

This should stop the album from showing up in various artists.

If this doesn't work let me know and I will setup a test environment and see what's going on.

[tonyneen]

Bob, they want to see the dueted or collaborated artists name in the Album tracklist view.

redlad what is the Album title

[TouchJams Support]

Hmm...with what I said above doesn't that happen? It may not....I would have to setup a test environment.

[tonyneen]

I will keep out of this one as i don't use album artist tags (very often) and don't want to confuse myself lol

I can't stop thinking about it, So, using Bobs information,

To fix this issue I would recommend using ALBUM ARTIST tag:
1) put all ripped files into the same folder
2) set the Album Artist tags to the same exact value for all files
3) set the Album tags to the same exact value for all files

These are my results, they seem to do what redlad wanted.

I LOVE ALBUM ARTIST tags now !!

[TouchJams Support]

Thanks for testing Tony, and glad it's working as intended!!!