Best practice for metada for single CD that is a collection of 2 albums

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#1

As I’m ripping my CDs and organizaing their metadata, I came across a dilemma how to organized the files and describe the metada in Roon for the following:

I have a single CD that is itself a collection of two prior LPs that were combined into a single CD re-issue – The artist is saxophonist Eddie Harris, and the CD is the collection of the 2 LPs: Bossa Nova / Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Amazon.com)

I would b grateful for any suggestions how to best organize this CD:

  • What title to give the album?
  • How do I make roon show this CD as incorporating two albums, where tracks 1-6 are the first album (titled “Bossa Nova”) and the following tracks 7-17 are the second album (titled “Breakfast At Tiffany’s”)?

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Thanks for any advice :slight_smile:

#2

I have a couple of these, and generally I split them back into two albums and use mp3tag to edit the metadata and file names, but really it depends on what you want to get from the album

#3

Yes, that seems the simplest path. The only downside is that I “lose” the history of the source (the CD) where this came from, but otherwise its solves the rest.

#4

Yes I was stuck with the same dilemma, but at the end of the day I reasoned that it was originally two albums, so I put it back that way.
Not sure there is a right way and a wrong way

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