Duplicate album names for multi-disc albums

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Starless - 28 Nov 2005 05:30 GMT

Hi, I've been playing with streaming to the XBOX 360 this week, and generally
I'm really happy with the results!

I do have one niggling problem though... on my PC I have renamed multi-disc
sets to have the same Album name ("Foo" instead of "Foo Disc 1", "Foo Disc
2", etc.) so that I can easily play them straight through and to cut down on
multi-disc "clutter". Strangely, these multi-disc albums show up as an Album
for each individual disc on the XBOX 360, each album with the same name but
with different track listings for each disc. Somehow WMC is remembering their
original disc configuration and displaying them that way instead of as one
compiled disc. I can't figure out a way to jigger with the tags to make it
stop... it's a little annoying, is there a way to stop this from happening?

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Alan Ludwig [MSFT] - 30 Nov 2005 04:37 GMT

Not really. WMC uses the "TOC" from each track to identify what album that
it comes from, and the title to decide what to play. This is to solve the
problem of the infamous "Greatest Hits" album. You don't want WMC to
combine all of your 'greatest hits' albums into one mega-album.

Some of this should get better in the Vista version of WMC.

Sorry,

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Starless - 10 Dec 2005 19:09 GMT

Hmmmm... I can understand your intentions here, but the experience is
different from WMP, which seems able to figure this out (using Album Artist).
It's a little frustrating to get two different results from the same source,
espcially using an attribute that the user cannot control. Thanks for letting
me know the reason it's happening at least, I'll look forward to Vista
addressing this difference in some way.

Paul

> Not really. WMC uses the "TOC" from each track to identify what album that
> it comes from, and the title to decide what to play. This is to solve the
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> Sorry,

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Chadlington - 29 Jan 2006 19:35 GMT

Perhaps you also need to include one set of track numbers, across the whole
set of files? i.e. continue numbering tracks on the second CD sequentially
from the first?

Just a thought....

> Hmmmm... I can understand your intentions here, but the experience is
> different from WMP, which seems able to figure this out (using Album Artist).
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> > Sorry,

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Starless - 30 Jan 2006 03:40 GMT

thanks for the idea - I've renamed track numbers by adding a disc number
(101, 102, 201, etc.) but no difference. Bottom line, WMC should
differentiate albums the way WMP does: by album artist. Anything but using an
uneditable tag.

> Perhaps you also need to include one set of track numbers, across the whole
> set of files? i.e. continue numbering tracks on the second CD sequentially
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> > > Sorry,

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