How do I condense sorting of artists to only include the main artist?

[SebastynDevlin]

I cant really seem to figure out how to do this, but when I attempt to sort my library into just the artist, I also get sections containing the artist and a secondary artist, meaning I cant just listen to an entire artist's work, as it wants to break things up between each set for some reason.

[SebastynDevlin]

[psychoadept]

Are you opposed to using album artist?

[SebastynDevlin]

Doesnt do anything.

[psychoadept]

Do  those tracks have Album Artist tagged? If it's blank, MusicBee uses the Artist value for Album Artist, which would give the result you have.

If you'll update your tags, you should get something like this:


Also, if you split the Artist tag into multiple artists (which is what the + by the artist field means) you get this:

[SebastynDevlin]

Ah, yeah, it only has artist and not album artist tagged. Any idea on how to do the 5k+ songs I have quickly?

[phred]

Ah, yeah, it only has artist and not album artist tagged. Any idea on how to do the 5k+ songs I have quickly?

I don't think there's any automated way of doing this. If you were to simply copy Artist to Album Artist, you'd wind up with the same issue since, as psychoadept pointed out, when Album Artist is empty, MB assumes Artist equals Album Artist.

[psychoadept]

If you have whole albums more than single tracks, that will speed it up some. I suggest trying MusicBee's auto tag by album feature. If that doesn't get good results (especially with the discogs plug in), there are more robust 3rd party options.