# Please Help at Sorting Collection **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [August 26, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-at-sorting-collection/19276 "2017-08-26T11:02:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Musicmonkey](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Musicmonkey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Musicmonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-at-sorting-collection/19276/1 "2017-08-26T11:02:13Z")
Hi can someone help me please ? What i want to do is group my collection so it only show's up once under albums but when you go into it it list all relevant albums ? ie Now what i call music then when you click that all the albums are listed in Now what i call music or another example i have the entire collection of The shadows Albums but when i click Albums there's like 30 different albums listed on the main screen. What i want to achieve is have one listing under Album say called the shadows - then when you click into it , it displays all the shadows albums ? My collection over the years has grown so i need to get it organised a bit better. Please help if you can or point me to the answer if this has already been covered as i can't find it ? Kindest regards Paul ---
**Author:** ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-at-sorting-collection/19276/2 "2017-08-26T14:07:45Z")
> [@Paul Bulmer](#): > > Hi can someone help me please ? > > What i want to do is group my collection so [...] It's hard to understand what you are after If I m correct, you want to have some sort of button / menu, after clicking which a sub-list would show up? If yes, then that is impossible, Mp3tag does not have functions You could work around the problem by putting expressions in the Filter Box. But If I am correct, you already are doing some filtering So you could the all of the albums to something like **Name of the album of band X: sub-title Name of the album of band X: description Name of the album of band X: [some kind sign here, acting as a marker]** and then click the Album column in the main view, to see them arranged [goruped] alphabetically ---
**Author:** ![Musicmonkey](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Musicmonkey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Musicmonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-at-sorting-collection/19276/3 "2017-08-26T15:01:51Z")
> [@Zerow](#): > > It's hard to understand what you are after > > If I m correct, you want to have some sort of button / menu, after clicking which a sub-list would show up? If yes, then that is impossible, Mp3tag does not have functions > > You could work around the problem by putting expressions in the Filter Box. But If I am correct, you already are doing some filtering > > So you could the all of the albums to something like > **Name of the album of band X: sub-title > Name of the album of band X: description > Name of the album of band X: [some kind sign here, acting as a marker]** > and then click the Album column in the main view, to see them arranged [goruped] alphabetically No not exactly when i connect to my Nas via Audio station i can display my album etc So if i look at the defult albums i get something like this Now what i call music 1 Now what i call music 2 Now what i call music 3 etc etc So i think we are up to Now what i call music 97 so thats 97 albums all on the default screen. so what i want to do is top level say Now what i call music collection you click into that top level and it display's albums 1 to 97 So in other words instead of seeing 97 albums on the default list of albums you just see 1 top level album ? Does this make sense ? ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-at-sorting-collection/19276/4 "2017-08-26T15:29:37Z")
Isn't this the problem of the player? Which object should carry the information that more actual albums are to follow? The album field in a file is already taken and shows the actual album. Perhaps if you do not use the album field for grouping but the ALBUMARTIST? This is probably "Various Artists" - so if you modify it to "That's what I call Music", you get only one entry in the list of ALBUMARTISTS but see all the albums if you click on it. ---
**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-at-sorting-collection/19276/5 "2017-08-26T16:12:15Z")
> [@Paul Bulmer](#): > > ...when i click Albums there's like 30 different albums listed on the main screen. What i want to achieve is have one listing under Album ... You can organize your hierarchical file and folder system as you want, the Windows explorer can help to create a basic folder (for the artist), and there within create subfolders (for the albums), and there within such album subfolder store the related track files. You can load such an entire subtree of folders (e. g. all from the artist) at once into Mp3tag list view, ... or you can load the files from one folder into Mp3tag list view ... or you can load one file or a set of different files into Mp3tag list view. Note: Within the dialog "Mp3tag/File/Change directory..." there is a checkbox " Subdirectories", which may help to do what you want. DD.20170826.2012.CEST ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-at-sorting-collection/19276/6 "2026-02-09T12:26:58Z")