I don’t see anything that helps me because I don’t understand what is causing the issue.
1 - I bought the album as MP3 because the CD was extremely expensive.
2 - I cleaned up the tags like I normally do(added the composer, used my preferred category, etc.) and created a playlist with MP3TAG and copied it to Apple Music but it always creates separate files rather than a folder.
3 - I looked in Details under Properties to see if I could spot anything unusual and didn’t and started turning on things with View Options under File Folder and found Album ID was different than usual for tracks.
I used MP3TAG to remove the tags and manually re-entered everything but the ALBUM ID didn’t change. I changed Artist in MP3TAG which seemed to be the correct field but it also made no difference. after several hours I am at a loss on how to fix this. any insight would be appreciated
Please show us a screenshot from Alt + T from one of your mp3.
Describe in as much detail as possible what you really want to achieve with Apple Music.
Have you filled the fields ALBUM and ALBUMARTIST?
yes, I tried “Various Artists” under Artists and the actual performer under album artist
I think it should be the other way round.
ALBUMARTIST is the overall publisher,
ARTIST is the actual performer of the individual track.
Elf is the problem album. it was purchased as an MP3 album. the Pentatonix album I ripped from the CD I bought.
the Elf album will only come over as individual tracks not as a folder containing the tracks of the album. the Pentatonix album come over as a folder with the tracks contained within. I have other albums I have bought as MP3 but generally I buy CDs and rip them. the Elf album has been the first difficult one. although I have just recently started using Apple Music and Devices instead of iTunes.
Please swap the contents of ALBUMARTIST and ARTIST.
that did the trick, thank you
