About Album Handling
Introduction to Album Handling
An album in Helium Music Manager is equal to an item in the Album Browser.
All albums are grouped using the Album
tag
and/or the path the files are located in. This can sometimes produce errors,
for example when you have two different Greatest Hits albums in the same
folder or if the files of one album is located in more than one folder
(CD-folders are handled). If an album is incorrectly split from tracks
belonging to the album or merged with another album you can manually correct
this.
Using Album Handling
The so called Album Handling is the procedure of correcting albums that
are incorrectly grouped.
An example of an incorrectly grouped album is shown below:
Artist A has an album named
Album A
Artist B also has an album named
Album A
If these two albums is located in the same folder and is added to the database,
Helium Music Manager may not have enough information to be able to separate
them since they have the same Album name. This album will be treated as
a
Sampler instead of an
Album, which would mean
that it would most likely be displayed as a Various Artist record instead
of an album. You would need to manually correct this problem.
Correcting incorrectly grouped tracks
There are two ways to correcting incorrectly grouped tracks:
- Move the incorrectly grouped tracks to a new folder
for example a folder named after the artist name and album name.
- Change the album tag on the two albums so they are
not the same anymore.
When you edit tags
with the tag editor Helium Music Manager will try to automatically assign
tracks to the correct album.
Note:
Helium Music Manager always use the album
tag and the folder to differentiate between two albums, if path and album
tag is the same the files will end up in the same album. Helium Music
Manager will also try to merge albums on more than one cd that is located
in different folders, if the path only differ with maximum 2 characters
and the characters is numbers between 1 and 99 then Helium Music Manager
will merge the folders into one album.