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i've been thinking about this overnight and i think this might be the best solution, it's a mix between both suggestions we've had so far:

when scanning, for each track -
- get album name tag, artist tag, check if any of "album artist", "albumartist" or "band " tags exist

- if albumartist tag exists:
- check if an album already exists in the database with same album name and album artist, if so, assign track to this album. if not, insert a new album in the database with idArtist corresponding to artist listed in albumartist tag

- if no albumartist tag exists:
- use the same way of adding albums as currently exists, but with mrmario's idea of grouping all tracks in the same folder into one album

that way, if people have their tracks labelled with albumartist tags mp will use them, but if not they still can get correctly handled it'd be a really friendly and powerful system - no changes would have to be made to anyone's music collection, but if they want the extra flexibility of retagging with albumartist they can do that!!

<blockquote data-quote="zombiepig" data-source="post: 45644" data-attributes="member: 12049">i've been thinking about this overnight and i think this might be the best solution, it's a mix between both suggestions we've had so far:when scanning, for each track -- get album name tag, artist tag, check if any of &quot;album artist&quot;, &quot;albumartist&quot; or &quot;band &quot; tags exist- if albumartist tag exists:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; - check if an album already exists in the database with same album name and album artist, if so, assign track to this album. if not, insert a new album in the database with idArtist corresponding to artist listed in albumartist tag- if no albumartist tag exists:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; - use the same way of adding albums as currently exists, but with mrmario's idea of grouping all tracks in the same folder into one albumthat way, if people have their tracks labelled with albumartist tags mp will use them, but if not they still can get correctly handled <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> it'd be a really friendly and powerful system - no changes would have to be made to anyone's music collection, but if they want the extra flexibility of retagging with albumartist they can do that!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zombiepig, post: 45644, member: 12049"] i've been thinking about this overnight and i think this might be the best solution, it's a mix between both suggestions we've had so far: when scanning, for each track - - get album name tag, artist tag, check if any of "album artist", "albumartist" or "band " tags exist - if albumartist tag exists: - check if an album already exists in the database with same album name and album artist, if so, assign track to this album. if not, insert a new album in the database with idArtist corresponding to artist listed in albumartist tag - if no albumartist tag exists: - use the same way of adding albums as currently exists, but with mrmario's idea of grouping all tracks in the same folder into one album that way, if people have their tracks labelled with albumartist tags mp will use them, but if not they still can get correctly handled :D it'd be a really friendly and powerful system - no changes would have to be made to anyone's music collection, but if they want the extra flexibility of retagging with albumartist they can do that!! [/QUOTE]