Create new album from playlist or tracks?

[Jiri_Nechleba (J Nechleba)]

Is it possible to create an album and use appropriate album art from another album?

Specific situation - my Steely Dan collection is Citizen Steely Dan which is a 4 disk set “album” which actually has:

• Can’t Buy a Thrill (1972)
• Countdown to Ecstasy (1973)
• Pretzel Logic (1974)
• Katy Lied (1975)
• The Royal Scam (1976)
• Aja (1977)
• Gaucho (1980)
  plus a couple of extra tracks.

I’d like to create each of those albums from the Citizen Steely Dan tracks and use the appropriate album art. Is this possible?

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

Sure, it is. I had a post about it awhile ago. There are a couple ways of doing it.

The Roon User Guide

I buy tons of compilation box sets from HDTracks, Van Halen, America, Yes, ZZTop, The Cars, the Doors, David Bowie 69-73, David Bowie, 74-76, and many others. I ALWAYS split them up into their original albums and Roon finds them and displays them as such; which I then tag with an album version titled the name of the box set. Here is the latest box set, David Bowie Who Can I Be Now? 74-76. The first is a shot of the how I split the files up on the watched drive: [image] Then just to show …

[Jiri_Nechleba (J Nechleba)]

Thanks for the reply and info. I did dive into the User Guide for a bit and found some potential paths but I wanted to ask about a specific way to accomplish what I’m trying to do and if it is possible.

A) I would like to leave the tracks as currently organized on the hard drive as is (ie Compilation-D1, Compilation-D2…

B) I would like to keep the compilation disks in my Roon library

C) I would like to create a playlist that represents the songs that compose the original album and associate the original album art with that playlist.

So I would have what I currently have (compilation disks labeled as such) and playlists for each of the original albums that those songs came from with the original album art.

Is that possible?