The album ID# in the db is the best idea so far for actually tracking a song's album grouping. There should be no having to rely on comparisons of tags to playlist titles. As has been mentioned many times, the player doesn't have a concept of a "playlist" by name when accessing a track.

The tricky part is how to implement the ability in emplode to quickly create these tags. I'd be fine with just selecting a bunch of playlists and clicking one option to assign unique IDs to the songs. Each ID# to represent an album. And it would choose songs that existed together at the same playlist level. Performing this function on some playlists would not be desirable. But it would work fine on ones you already had grouped by album.

But, this is really only necessary to prevent mis-grouping tracks that have the same source defined. Or to be able to package together songs that have different source tags. Otherwise the player could implement the feature using the source tag itself obviously.

Anyway, I'll re-read this again soon and offer some more constructive input. Keep this one alive. It's useful.

Bruno