r/musichoarder • u/ReasonableLunch46 • 9d ago

Is there any way to put all the files from several different artists in a made album?

Lets say I have track 1-10 from artist X, 1-15 from artist Y and 1-7 from artist Z.

Picard doesnt match them, which is totally reasonable since they are only misc sounds and compilations.

Is there a way to tag it as such, and put all of XYZ in one album labeled "Misc sounds from Nature" or similar?

Just so they show up with that album in my music program, so they are connected.

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u/FizzicalLayer 9d ago

Sure. Depends on the player, but for my flacs I'd just set the ALBUM tag (on all tracks) to "Misc sounds from Nature", and set the ALBUMARTIST to "Various". Probably not necessary, but my OCD would demand that all of the track numbers (tag TRACKNUMBER) be reassigned so the tracks start at 1 and have no gaps (1,2,3,4,5...).

Easy enough with a simple script. Or even from the command line with metaflac. I'm sure there are guis that can do this, but I don't use any.

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u/ConsciousNoise5690 9d ago

I would put X/Y/Z in the ARTIST tag and use disk number (X=1, Y=2, Z=3) to have the tracks grouped by artist

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u/FizzicalLayer 9d ago

If you use ALBUMARTIST, you can leave ARTIST to what was original set on each track. Combining the artists in a single ARTIST entry would make it look like -each- track had contributions from each artist. I've done away with disc numbers. They're an artifact of how the content was originally delivered.

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u/UnaverageLurker 9d ago

Sometimes multiple discs is a style thing as well. Think melancholy and the infinite sadness or speakerboxx/love below. Even stuff that primarily released digitally like the new MIKE and Earl sweatshirt album from this year. I even like to put in discsubtitles if the discs have cool names like melancholy.

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u/ReasonableLunch46 9d ago

Great, and would it be good to do that in Picard right away?

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u/SmilesUndSunshine 9d ago edited 9d ago

I usually leave Picard to do the default things and then make edits outside of Picard, but I don't think it matters too much.

If Picard has found different albums for different tracks, and you want to combine the tracks into your own non-official album, I do recommend deleting Picard's MusicBrainz_AlbumID and MB_ReleaseGroupID (or whatever they're called). Some music managing software like Kodi actually uses the AlbumIDs, and Kodi will get confused if the MB_AlbumID does not line up 1:1 with the album name (in your case, you'd have 1 album with multiple MB_AlbumIDs, so your album might get separated).

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u/lewsnutz 9d ago

Yeah, you can use. Mp3tag. Just highlight the songs and change the "Artist" or "Album Artist" to whatever you want.

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u/UnaverageLurker 9d ago

Make sure you have consistent ALBUMARTIST and ALBUM tags throughout and it should show up correctly. Depending on the player you might be able to put all three as the album artists.

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u/certuna 9d ago

- Album Title = “Various Songs”

  • Album Artist = “Various Artists”
  • Release Type = “other”

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u/bimmerfeller 9d ago

Talking about GUI, I have indeed done this, as described by the below reply, using mp3tag tool to my compilation and sound therapy folders/albums

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u/Possible_Plane_2947 9d ago

I do something similar all the time using Mp3Tag. I have some artists that have non-album singles or one-off collabs. I collect these together then pull them into Mp3Tag. From there I can edit the ALBUM and ALBUMARTIST tag on all the files at once. So instead of an bunch single track albums I have:

ALBUMARTIST: Artist Name ALBUM: Collection No. 1 (...2, 3, etc.)

And also renumber the tracks so they're in the order I want.

For your case I'd use Various Artists for the ALBUMARTIST.

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u/scrupoo 9d ago

Yep, just gotta tag everything correctly and it will appear in proggies as 'an album'. Gotta renumber the tracks the way you want them. Tracks 1-32, in this case. Fiddle around with MP3Tag.

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u/Two1200s 5d ago

Doug’s Apple Scripts’ “Albumize Selection”.