Using multi CD albums of the same name, although I've distinguished which set of songs are in which of the three albums, I still get them compiling as one album, here:
http://i.imgur.com/ljI3E.png?1 (http://i.imgur.com/ljI3E.png?1)
How can I remedy the situation?
That's a sorting issue. Open Preferences (Ctrl+P) and go to Shell Integration. In the box labeled
Sort incoming files by:, paste the following (you can omit the dashes if you want) or something similar:
%album artist% - %date% - %album% - %discnumber% - %tracknumber% - %title%
There's another box with the same label located under
Display > Columns UI > Filter tab that you'll probably want to enter that title formatting into as well.
That's a sorting issue. Open Preferences (Ctrl+P) and go to Shell Integration. In the box labeled Sort incoming files by:, paste the following (you can omit the dashes if you want) or something similar:
%album artist% - %date% - %album% - %discnumber% - %tracknumber% - %title%
There's another box with the same label located under Display > Columns UI > Filter tab that you'll probably want to enter that title formatting into as well.
It didn't seem to help :\
http://i.imgur.com/RPFHJ.png?1 (http://i.imgur.com/RPFHJ.png?1)
Do your files have DISCNUMBER tags to begin with?
Do your files have DISCNUMBER tags to begin with?
http://i.imgur.com/fNVjy.png?1 (http://i.imgur.com/fNVjy.png?1)
That's about as far as I've gotten with telling foobar there's more than one CD.
go to preferences playlist/coloumns UI/playlist view/ then switch to grouping tab and use the desired TF to group according to the discnumber tag
something like this
%album% [Disc: %discnumber%]
^That isn't necessary to get the files to sort correctly.
http://i.imgur.com/fNVjy.png?1 (http://i.imgur.com/fNVjy.png?1)
That's about as far as I've gotten with telling foobar there's more than one CD.
Have you tried reloading the playlist or reloading the metadata from those files?
@BenB
oh sorry i misunderstood.
No need to apologize. OP could certainly do what you suggested if he wanted the discs grouped separately, but there is no guarantee that the files would be sorted correctly.