Sorting various tracks in WMP

johnivanovich · 25 Mar 2011

I would like to put all my single tracks (where there is no whole album) into one album in Windows Media Library. I know there is an option to set "Various artits" under the album artist for all these tracks, and to set a real artist under the contributing artists, so that would made WMP to keep it in in one album in library.
But when I'm burning my CDs, copying these mp3 files somewhere else, or in general working with them outside WMP, I want to keep album artist under file properties=>details empty. Is this possible?

Gornot · 26 Mar 2011

No. Once you type in your tags in order to sort files in WMP properly, that's it. You can always change those tags, but that would mean either copying these songs to a whole new location which WMP doesn't have access to (i.e. not included anywhere in the Music Library of Win7) or constantly adding and removing tags. So, no, that's about the simplest answer I can give you, buddy.

Why would you want to keep the tags empty anyway, if I may ask?

johnivanovich · 27 Mar 2011

It may sound silly, but for example when I put this files on my mp3 player, I don't like it to says "unknow album". If there is no real album title, then I would like it to stay empty. Anyway, thank you for your answer:)

allend66 · 28 Mar 2011

Use an id3 tag editor, Tagscanner for example, then put a single space in the field. It will still be empty but you will not see "unknown album" on your media player lcd window, you'l see " ".

johnivanovich · 28 Mar 2011

That should work. Thank you!:)