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telboy1812

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good afternoon i add a album and it creates 100 albums the only thing to i can see it seems to reading the numbers before the song title i used mp3tag to remove the track number i have 130 albums all sorts when i load into other music programs no problem but yours only about 90% load as 1 album hope you get my meaning and you can help

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Sounds like your issue is one of those where "if your post is about something best explained visually, add a screenshot to your description".
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telboy1812

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okay thank you my pc is windows 11 64bit using latest musicbee which is installed on my external hard drive and my music files as well when I install a folder of 100 files it creates 100 albums
here is a screenshot https://imgur.com/a/PiA0GNT

thank you for your help much appreciated

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it seems that you add compilation album to MB. MB determines what is "album" by combination of tags album/album artist (by default, you can change this in MB prefs> sorting/grouping> grouping). if tag "album artist" is empty, then MB autopopulates is by "artist" tag for internal usage (this is generally acceptable for non-compilation albums).

either enter the same album artist for every compilation album (e.g. "Various Artists" or just "Compilation") or redefine what MB considers the album.

telboy1812

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yes but other albums load fine with various in the tag

telboy1812

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a screenshot of my mp3tag https://imgur.com/a/HuQ9HWO

not sure what to do in grouping

many thanks for your help

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Lots of issues there to fix with this album's tags to clean it up.
1. Using "Compilations" for the Albumartist is fine, but the Artist tag should not be Compilation. You have the Artist name joined into the Title, you can use MusicBee to separate these.
2. The fourth line for "Arrival" seems to have some corruption to the Album name.
3. These tracks all have both ID3v1 and ID3v2.3 tags. While this may not be a problem for MusicBee to handle, it can create issues with other players. I'd suggest saving all tags to v2.3 and deleting the v1 tags.

It has already been said, but I will repeat it here for clarification. For compilation albums, it is essential to have the combination of the Albumartist and Album fields be unique. This is how they are separated by the player in most cases.
Examples;
"Greatest Hits" by almost every artist with more than 1 album  :) 
"Faith" by Faith Hill versus "Faith" by George Michael

The Artist field can be different for each and every track on any album. But this is where the Albumartist field helps to distinguish the concept of a complete Album rather than having single tracks splitting into a separate Album for each Artist.

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telboy1812

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i can't understand why my other albums load as 1 have is a screenshots of my 70s album that load as 1

https://imgur.com/a/zsUURJR

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It works because it has an album artist set
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Why is your <artist> the same as the <album artist>?
Download the latest MusicBee v3.6 patch from here.
Unzip into your MusicBee directory and overwrite existing files.

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telboy1812

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i don't know sorry to be a pain but off to bed as early shift tomorrow but thank you for the help today

telboy1812

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guess who's bank  :)
i download the album again and retagged but this did not work  :'(

https://imgur.com/dcEwGKQ

i really appreciate your help i just want to stop using wmp

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i download the album again and retagged but this did not work  :'(
Show us the album as displayed in the Tag Editor.
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