managing soundtrack albums with different artists

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managing soundtrack albums with different artists

I have a number of albums, such as soundtracks, with multiple artists, but I can't seem to figure out how to keep the album together as a whole without losing the individual artists. For example, I want all the songs from the Dreamgirls soundtrack in one place so I can shuffle just that album when I want to, but when I'd like to shuffle all my Jennifer Hudson songs, I'd like her Dreamgirls songs to be included there too when I sort by artist, you know? I've been playing around with the artist, album artist, and sorting options, but I haven't found what I need yet. It always works in one way, but not both.

Has anyone figured out how to do that?

Thanks,

Hans

Windows 7

Posted on Jan 30, 2015 8:38 PM

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ChrisJ4203

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Jan 30, 2015 8:41 PM in response to hans1804

It needs to be marked as a compilation and have the same Album name.

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Jan 31, 2015 5:34 AM in response to ChrisJ4203

Thanks for the thought, but I tried marking it as a compilation, and they still won't populate in both places. The whole album is marked as a compilation, and for an individual song, the album artist says Soundtrack and the artist is Jennifer Hudson (on the Sorting tab, the Sort As all say Jennifer Hudson), but when I go to shuffle all Jennifer Hudson songs, it's not there. And if I change the album artist to Jennifer Hudson, the song will show up in the artist shuffle, but it will create a separate album. Any ideas?

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ChrisJ4203

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Jan 31, 2015 7:28 AM in response to hans1804

I'm not sure that you can do both. I've only got a couple of soundtrack albums, so it is harder for me to check, but it seems to me that as is, if you want to keep these types of albums together, it won't allow the single artist to be pulled out for the artist shuffle. If I get some extra time later I can test it, but again, with only a couple of albums, it might be tough. Good luck, maybe someone else has tried what you are looking to do.

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hhgttg27

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Jan 31, 2015 8:13 AM in response to hans1804

A song on a compilation will be included in the list of albums/songs for a given artist, in Artists view, if the following conditions are true:

the album is classified as "part of a compilation"
the Album Artist value is blank
the Group Compilations setting in the Artist dropdown at the top right of the screen:

is unchecked.

Example (not a soundtrack, but the data is comparable): when these conditions are true in the metadata for "The Best Prog Rock Album The World ... Ever!" album and the current view settings are as above, I get this: