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I set some things back and rebooted. Seems to be something related to hifi dac output. I'll play around when I have time to reproduce it.

My perspective is people use a lot of workarounds due to lack of this feature of favoriting a group of songs (album or whatever). As it pertains to this particular thread/feature only. I put my vote in and my opinion. That's all I can do. I'm aware the software is flexible and people use it in different unique ways and that's cool. I've found the simplest solution for me is just using search, as the albums pop right up there.

Same issue just now on pixel 7. Just noticed after messing with a dac and hires output. Haven't rebooted yet, but force stop and everything does nothing as others have mentioned. Volume levels are set to default. Some people mention that being the issue.

I hear you. That's how you see it.

@Ash Roarshock thanks for the suggestion. I've been making my way around with other workarounds too. I'll check your idea out. The fact that everyone has all these workarounds should tell the team something.

@andrewilley that is correct, thus the frustration that led to the original suggestion of favorite albums, etc.... As a means to filter down albums to my favorites. So for now I use the folders workaround since I keep my full albums in a separate folder on my device. But that folder is organized as folder name > artist > album. So it's a bit of clicking to get to an album that way.

I hear you. I understand it is expected behavior, but that is just how I had it. I understand your workarounds. Was answering the question asked by Bencherished of how many albums I had. I already do use folders as a workaround. The reason I used the term playlist is because that is the only scenario I have single tracks from albums in my storage. On my device I have a playlist folder and then I add that whole folder as a playlist in the player to create the matching text file.

@MotleyG Yes, I'm aware of why the behavior is why it is like it is. I was answering your initial question.

Correct. Creating a lot of entries in Albums category, making it hard to find favorites. But anyone with a lot of albums or one-offs would potentially have the same issue of a lot if clutter to get to favorites. So yeah, I often use workarounds like long pressing to get to an album on a track or more often using folders. But still both are workarounds. edit: @andrewilley I'm not sure if you are confirming my point or saying there is a way to filter out albums with one track. But many times I have 2 or 3 tracks from the same album on a playlist, so albums are created with 2-3 tracks as they should.

I have a folder of a bunch of one offs that make up a playlist. The tracks have correct meta info. I don't bring in the full albums because I don't have the full albums. @MotleyG @andrewilley

You actually don't even have to have a lot of albums to make this cumbersome. In my case I have a few long and correctly meta tagged (single song files) Playlists. This ends up making album entries for the corresponding songs' origin in the album list. So I only have maybe 20 full albums on my device at a given time, but hundreds of albums show in my album list. If there is a setting for this that I'm missing, would be interested to know. @andrewilley I voted on your new item. @6b6561 thanks for chiming in and for the tips on the Playlist manager. I'll check it out.

I was thinking some kind of single favorite or not favorite. And sure you could use it for whatever collection type. And then just add a filter to only show the favorited within the category or show all.

@andrewilley moreso the other comment and just other threads I've read before posting. I did vote though, thanks for the link. One simple (ish) idea would be to be able to heart an album for example and not have a category for it, but rather a filter in the existing albums category to show only hearted.

Wow, a lot of resistance to a feature that is standard on nearly every streaming service and player. At any rate, I'm not gonna get down in the mud about it since I really like everything else about the player.

Yes I know all of this. But an album is a collection specifically curated by an artist to go together. And finding the albums I listen to most is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Why could you not have a favorite category like favorite collections that you could favorite at a favorite album or Playlist level.