I’m still struggling with play order for albums. I mostly play music using my file structure for navigation. It seemed like retagging things with double digit track numbers fixed it, but I’m not 100% sure the things that work now were not working before and I haven’t had time to sit down and retag everything else yet.
You guys here told me to try album view or artist view. That sort of works, but not with compilations. My album view is a disaster. I read here that if I can add an album artist tag to everything, that will help. But I’m not sure how to do that yet, both from a logical organizational standpoint (what artist to assign to an album), and technically, how to automate it for a large library.
What I have found that works is to use search. If I search for an artist, it gives me a list of their albums, I can “clear and play” and it works perfectly. Again, only for single-artist albums, but it’s better than what I was doing before.
What I cannot do is search an album and play it from the search results. It says it is going to play the album. It clears the queue, but does not add any tracks to the queue.
For example, if I search “Steely Dan” and “clear and play” “Aja” from the search results, I get “Black Cow.” But if I search “Aja” and try to “clear and play” “Aja” from the search results, I get nothing.
Additionally, I get similar behavior if I click on the album name in the search results and then hit the big play button at the top of the track list that appears. If I originally searched for the artist, it works. If I searched for the album, it says it worked, but no playback.
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