Organize compilation on Sony a50?

Apr 30, 2021 at 8:02 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 2

giulioskij

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Hi everyone,
I just switched to Walkman a50, and there's this problem that's giving me headache.
I come from iTunes organization, where the flag “compilation” would move all the album songs into a Compilations folder, preventing all the dozen sorted artists to pop up into the main “Artist” search field. Now, I feel a such modern and dedicated music player as the a50 should have a similar way to catalog my library, but I really can’t find it, and have all my artist section flooded with hundreds of compilation musician which I only have 1 track.
I already tried using the COMPILATION tag (on flac files) but the player would simply ignore it.
I already thought to a way round: move all artist names into the track's title, and using a single artist tag to group all the compilation artists, but this would just be an ungraceful patch and it would need to retag many albums.

Thank you really much in advance for any help...
 
May 3, 2021 at 6:43 PM Post #2 of 2
Hi everyone,
I just switched to Walkman a50, and there's this problem that's giving me headache.
I come from iTunes organization, where the flag “compilation” would move all the album songs into a Compilations folder, preventing all the dozen sorted artists to pop up into the main “Artist” search field. Now, I feel a such modern and dedicated music player as the a50 should have a similar way to catalog my library, but I really can’t find it, and have all my artist section flooded with hundreds of compilation musician which I only have 1 track.
I already tried using the COMPILATION tag (on flac files) but the player would simply ignore it.
I already thought to a way round: move all artist names into the track's title, and using a single artist tag to group all the compilation artists, but this would just be an ungraceful patch and it would need to retag many albums.

Thank you really much in advance for any help...
In your settings, try changing the Artist view from track artist to Album Artist, and then make the album artist for compilations “Various Artists” or something similar. That’s how I handle this. hope it helps
 

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