As you can see from the screenshot of some albums by Bruce Springsteen, if you look carefully at the top left corner of some of the album artwork (e.g. ‘Born In The USA’) you’ll see a small arrow pointing down at around 45 degrees, followed by a letter and a number in brackets. (Scroll past image for next text.)
I’ve worked out the single letter relates to the first letter of the title of the album, and the bracketed number refers to the number of albums which appear to be defined as a group. Again looking at the screenshot, ‘Born In The USA’ is a grouping of one album, but the album below - ‘Darkness On the Edge Of Town’ has a grouping of two. Again, I’ve worked out that where the grouping number is greater than one, it encompasses the albums below it up to and including that number.
The third album down, ‘Devils & Dust’ has no such strange notation above it, as it belongs to the group including ‘Darkness On The Edge Of Town’ - hence the group number total of two.
Now if you click on that little arrow, it shrinks the album group down to just a single line as shown in the next screenshot. (Scroll past image for next text.)
My question is, what attribute of the track metadata is controlling this? I’ve looked through the individual track properties and can’t find anything that is causing this behaviour. Anyone know why this happens? It’s not an issue, and doesn’t seem to affect anything, but I’m curious to know what this is.
I'm a newbie to this forum, so apologies if this has been answered before. I did search but couldn't find the answer.
Regards to all!