Grouping Albums by Album Artist

[ronjames]

Sorry Tim,
I missed the post when you asked for a zip file with albums.
I do it and let you asap.
Thanks again for your help.
Olivier

[Tim Curtis]

Here's some screen shots of the sample albums you provided and also the Prefs settings.

There is only one occurrence of each of the two albums in Album view.
All looks good on my end.

           

[the_bertrum]

1. You don't have the Genre tag on the left. I cannot find how to remove it.

Preferences/Library/Show Genres

2.Moode displays the list of what should be 'Album Artists' if I understand properly (I chose 'Album Artist' in the Tag view artist in Preferences) but there are issues on my side (see "A Tribe Called Quest ..." multiple entries. Before writing this post I double checked the tags in my files (with Tag&Rename) and all albums have the same Album Artist "A Tribe Called Quest", the other names listed under Album Artists in the Tag view (for example "A Tribe Called Quest feat. Busta Rhymes") are actually coming from the "Artist" tag in my files, not the "Album Artist".

Album Artist or Album Artist+ should give you the result you desire.  I suggest you clear the tag cache (Configure/Library), and clear your browser cache for good measure.

3. The track list in your screenshot is also different from mine. In yours, the third columns seems to show both the Artist for any given track on the first row, and then I guess the Album artist on the second row. In my case (it does not show on my screenshot but I checked) the third column lists only the Album Artist.

The second row is composer or some other "performer" tags.  I don't maintain those in my collection, but some tracks have them and they show up here.

[ronjames]

1. You don't have the Genre tag on the left. I cannot find how to remove it.

Preferences/Library/Show Genres

2.Moode displays the list of what should be 'Album Artists' if I understand properly (I chose 'Album Artist' in the Tag view artist in Preferences) but there are issues on my side (see "A Tribe Called Quest ..." multiple entries. Before writing this post I double checked the tags in my files (with Tag&Rename) and all albums have the same Album Artist "A Tribe Called Quest", the other names listed under Album Artists in the Tag view (for example "A Tribe Called Quest feat. Busta Rhymes") are actually coming from the "Artist" tag in my files, not the "Album Artist".

Album Artist or Album Artist+ should give you the result you desire.  I suggest you clear the tag cache (Configure/Library), and clear your browser cache for good measure.

3. The track list in your screenshot is also different from mine. In yours, the third columns seems to show both the Artist for any given track on the first row, and then I guess the Album artist on the second row. In my case (it does not show on my screenshot but I checked) the third column lists only the Album Artist.

The second row is composer or some other "performer" tags.  I don't maintain those in my collection, but some tracks have them and they show up here.

Thanks a lot for your explanations