Non-Album Tracks
The [non-album tracks] pseudo-album
When there are NonAlbumTracks for an artist, they appear in the pseudo-album [non-album tracks]. Although it appears somewhat like a regular album, there are several significant differences:
- its tracks are not numbered and their "order" cannot be changed (EditTrackNumber)
- its name cannot be edited (EditAlbumName)
- it has no release data (EditAlbumReleases)
- it has no attributes (compilation, official, etc.) (EditAlbumAttributes)
- it cannot be converted to multiple artists (ConvertAlbumToMultipleArtists)
- it cannot be moved to another artist (MoveAlbum)
- it cannot be explicitly merged with another album (MergeAlbums)
While there is a Delete link that submits a RemoveAlbum for the [non-album tracks], using RemoveTrack instead is [http:?RemoveAlbum#dontremovenonalbum preferred].
Although the [non-album tracks] album cannot be explicitly merged with another album, when two artists are merged (MergeArtists) their respective [non-album tracks] (if any) are merged; however, this merge adds all the tracks to the resulting [non-album tracks] rather than merging them individually (by track number) as explicit merges do. This may result in duplicate NonAlbumTracks, possibly with the same name, although that can also occur due to duplicate AddTrack edits.
Unlike regular albums, when all tracks are removed from the [non-album tracks] album, the album itself is deleted (whereas a regular album would remain but have no tracks).
The [non-album tracks] album can (and should) have an AlbumAnnotation that contains text comments on the individual tracks.
Author: @alex
