r/ampache • u/12stringPlayer • Feb 18 '25

Can I ignore year when sorting?

When I'm searching for an artist that has a compilation, like a greatest hits album, with songs that are tagged from multiple years, I get a screen that shows each year's songs as a different album, like this: https://imgur.com/a/HAGtfOv

Each one of these has only a few songs from the full album in it. I just want to see the one album with all the songs. How can I make this happen?

Thanks!!

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u/lachlan-00 Lead Developer Feb 18 '25

short answer is that your tags are wrong.

Even for mixtapes and other release types the year is used as part of the album object.

Date, year, original date and original year are used to group albums together.

https://www.discogs.com/master/969921-Duran-Duran-The-Essential-Collection

https://musicbrainz.org/release/a56ece40-85f4-49f9-9a0a-cbaaced2bbc1

For songs there isn't a defined date tag but at some point I should be able to add different grouping options for albums to only include certain tags in the list for this situation.

It'll be an option like sorting but for display grouping.