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Questions / Re: Show all tracks in a compilation album

« on: December 24, 2019, 05:32:29 AM »

Yes I did check that, album artist is blank, and (in itunes) compilation is checked, for every song.

EDIT: I confirmed your suspicion after checking a little more ... in the Musicbee track editor, on the settings tab, "iTunes compilation" is not checked on these tracks.  Seeing as I just did a fresh import, it seems this is not correctly detected by Musicbee when importing from iTunes.  (I seem to recall that years ago iTunes stopped using an XML file to store library info, maybe Musicbee can only import this attribute from the old XML file format?)

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Questions / Group all tracks in a compilation album

« on: December 24, 2019, 05:05:16 AM »

Here's another issue I can't figure out, after importing my library from iTunes.  I have numerous albums flagged as "compilations" in iTunes where the individual tracks are from varying artists.  iTunes shows these grouped into a single album if you choose the iTunes albums view, or as a single album under "Compilations" if you choose the artist view.  Musicbee, however, seems to always split out the tracks and group them by individual track artist, regardless of whether you're trying to group by album or album artist instead.

e.g. I have a compilation album titled "111 Classical Masterpieces" (not surprisingly, comprised of 111 tracks) ... I want some way, in Musicbee, to click on this album title, and see just the tracks in the album, but I can't figure out how to do this.  Sorting by either "album" or "album artist" still seems to actually prefer grouping tracks by individual track artist name, rather than by album title or album artist.

In preferences, I have have grouping (under sorting/grouping tab) set the to the default which is 1. "album artist", 2. "album", and the checkbox enabled to set iTunes compilation album artist name to "Various Artists".

Here are some screenshots where I try sorting by "album" (which I would expect to group by album name, but it doesn't appear to do that) and "album artist".  In both cases I have "album cover" selected in the view pane.

https://imgur.com/2h93vb5

https://imgur.com/D2zC65h

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Questions / Re: Show all songs

« on: December 24, 2019, 04:01:05 AM »

Thanks!!  The wiki page helps, but still doesn't give the full picture, to duplicate the iTunes songs list you need to:

1. from any tab, in the left hand column select "all albums" (at the top of the album list)
2. in the view pane to the right of the albums list, click the drop-down at the top of the view pane (NOT the drop down above the album list) and select "tracks" (as per the wiki page)

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Questions / Show all songs

« on: December 24, 2019, 03:32:13 AM »

I'm surprised I couldn't find an answer to this anywhere!  Is there a way to get a simple list of all the songs in your library, like the iTunes songs view?  Or, barring that, can I get a list view of my highest rated songs?