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I edit the tags so that the Artist tag is "Singles", the Album tag is [The Artist Name], and the Comment tag [Album Name]. (Or I discard the album name entirely.) This way I get just one "artist" entry in any app for all of my singles instead of a bunch of artists with one song each.
On my hard drive, I normally do
/artist/album
, so for singles I have a "Singles" folder just as if it were an actual artist, with a ton of folders inside, one for each artist name. Inside each artist folder is the MP3s without further organization.If I have full albums from some artist plus some singles, I usually keep the artist name as-is, and put the singles into a virtual album named "Singles".
So, like this:
With tags having the same structure.
Yes, this results in the "Singles" artist having 245 albums, but that's never been a problem to me. I never use a view in any app that shows all albums.
That's the best idea I think I've heard for this problem.
Another idea I'd considered (if using a media library application) was to make compilations with several songs merged into one mp3 at a time. It doesn't bother me in theory, but for some reason I don't like the idea of it.