Put them in a folder under the artist called Singles, and then I select a picture related to the artist(s) that I like the most to be the album cover. Then Symphony groups them for me. Though they have no track numbers.
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That sounds interesting. Does it hide the artists from the artist list?
No it puts them in an album named Singles under each respective artist.
I just have a "Pop" playlist. Can use whatever cover art you want for the list.
Then I can sort the list in many options: alphabetical, date added to library, etc.
It's my own collection and I use Poweramp. Sorry I don't know info on cloud music players.
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:
/Music/Rubblebucket/Omega La La/MP3s
/Music/Simon & Garfunkel/Bridge Over Troubled Water/MP3s
/Music/Singles/A-Ha/MP3s
/Music/Singles/Air Supply/MP3s
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.
I compile them in singles compilations
I don't anymore, I just don't care if it's tagged right or what the album art is, any player worth its salt just filters through everything grep-like. It can be blank tags so long as there's bandname and songname in the filename. Sorry I'm no help, but you wrote tedium and I remembered and don't miss it.
Yeah, I feel you. I think anymore I’ll be taking the path of least resistance.
I don't listen to singles.
I don't treat it differently than any other album.
Singles still used to come on a physical thing with a name. Often with a B side. Sometimes it's the Radio Edit or Single version of a track so I may add (Single) or (DJ Remix) in the album title.
I don't personally see the issue. If I'm browsing an artist, I want to see all the music they've released.