Multi Disc not recognised as one disc

[SlimChances]

I know this topic has been rehashed many times but I have problem with one multi disc the others work fine. I have a 6 disc set of Woodstock. All the discs are tagged with the exact same title and each disc is labelled 1/6,2/6..... Whatever I try it shows as 6 separate albums when I select it. Things I have tried to no avail: setting album as compilation (it isn't really), setting compilation column to 1, setting album artist to various. I have checked with Tagscanner and MP3Tagger and the album title is consistently the same for all 6 albums. Other multidisc albums are recognised as one disc

[w3wilkes]

What about "Album Artist" and "Year"? Are they the same across all 6 discs too? I've never done the 1/6 2/6... I just do 1 2... and have never had a problem. And are all discs in the same folder?

[SlimChances]

What about "Album Artist" and "Year"? Are they the same across all 6 discs too? I've never done the 1/6 2/6... I just do 1 2... and have never had a problem. And are all discs in the same folder?

Thanks for your reply. They are marked Various under Album Artist and 2009 under year(see image, all tracks selected)



edit: I wonder if the issue is that the tracks are done by different artists like a compilation even though the Album Artist is the same (Various)

[SlimChances]

I think I fixed it. I changed Album Artist to the number 1 and re-scanned and it worked. Seems the label Various under album artist won't work nor will leaving that entry blank.Odd

[w3wilkes]

How do you have these set? I only have the 2 disc Woodstock w/"Album Artist" set to "Various" and it works fine.

[SlimChances]

How do you have these set? I only have the 2 disc Woodstock w/"Album Artist" set to "Various" and it works fine.

Yes it is a 6 disc set

[BJW]

there is a string conflict bug in LMS where if your album artist field is = to what LMS says the defined string for comps is, and there is no comp=1 tag, then LMS hides the music in some views.

not saying thats the issue here tho. my guess is there is some tag or folder location issue preventing the 6 discs from being merged and considered one album. (i'm not much help bc i like to see each physical CD as a separate artwork)

[w3wilkes]

Yes it is a 6 disc set

My experience is that if Album Artist, Album Title, (maybe year), are the same across all tracks and all tracks are in the same folder I have no trouble. I would guess each disc (or track) could have different imbedded album art. I do not use the Comp tag. I just set Album Artist to "Various" for my compilation albums. In LMS settings i use "Treat TPE2 MP3 tag as Album Artist". Using Material skin it's capable of allowing both full album (all discs) to be played or each disc can be played separately.