Music file organisation

[Womaz]

Let me make sure I understand your set-up...from what you've said, it sounds to me as though:

• your music files are stored on a disc in your Melco streamer
  
• you can see (and play?) the files on your PC using a Windows program, pointed to the drive corresponding to the disc in your Melco (mounted via a network connection?)
  
• the PC-based player shows the tracks grouped into albums as you want them
  
• the control points you use to play music by streaming it to the Devialet show the tracks grouped into albums differently, and not as you want them
  

Is that about right?

If so, it seems that the PC-based player and the control point software are using different methods to decide how to group the individual music files (tracks) into albums.  For example, you might have your PC-based music player configured to organise by folders, but the control points are likely to use ID3 tags.

A tagger would allow you to examine the metadata (tags) in the music files to discover why the control point software is organising them differently.  You could then change them as needed to re-organise the way the control point software groups them.

As Cylob said, you might want to tread carefully to be sure you don't do anything you later regret...  First of all, it can take some time if you have a large collection and want to get everything just so.  (There are ways of automating this process, for example Bliss.)  Secondly, I'd want to be sure I had a good back-up of my music collection before modifying it, whether by hand using a tagger or automatically by some more complicated software.

Thank you for your excellent reply. You have it about right. I think the conclusion I have come to is that I could cause even more problems if I am not careful so I will probably just have to grin and bear it.
The Melco has two hard drives from what I remember so I have two copies of my Music. I also back up every couple of weeks to a WD My Passport back up drive.
I use DBPoweramp to rip my CD purchases so it may be just this I have the issues with. If I am buying a FLAC file from a provider then I have always assumed this would be filed correctly? From what I understand it may not be the filing of the music that is the problem.
Without knowing how a tagger really works I feel it may be best leaving it alone, although its annoying to have music in the incorrect folders ......especially when I am trying to impress my pals with my 200