FAQ: specify that album tracks must share a date#253
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I ran into this requirement with some "fake" compilation albums that were assembled from loose tracks with a variety of dates. This commit also mentions that the `Album Artist` approach works just as well for compilations.
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Thanks, just a small correction and we c=should be good to merge this.
| For a single-artist album with a different artist name for each track (for example "Alice feat. Bob" , "Alice feat. Carol"), the `Album Artist` tags must be the same ("Alice") for all tracks. | ||
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| Also, take a look at the [Persistent IDs](/docs/usage/configuration/persistent-ids/) feature, which can help you group tracks that belong to | ||
| Additionally, the `Date` tag must have the same value (or lack of value) for all tracks in an album. |
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The tag used is actually RELEASEDATE/TDRL . Navidrome falls back to DATE when RELEASEDATE is missing
...and disambiguate some wording.
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@deluan Thanks for that corrected info! I updated the wording to match. |
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I ran into this requirement with some "fake" compilation albums that were assembled from loose tracks with a variety of dates.
This commit also mentions that the
Album Artistapproach works just as well for compilations.